Humanity scrambles to maintain its foothold on the planet



There appears consensus that this
 is where we are headed -
 Four Degrees or More?

Maintaining a foothold on earth has long been a challenge for humanity, but with exponential growth in numbers and the blunt refusal to abandon practices that have left all aspects of our environment in serious disrepair; the few existing solutions are quickly closing down.

Beyond that, the Huffington Post notes in a story headed: “Climate change report predicts warming will only make human ills worse” that the many ills of the modern world – starvation, poverty, flooding, heatwaves, droughts, war and disease - will only worsen.

Increase in global temperatures are locked in - as 2° degree over pre-industrial levels cannot be avoided and it was at the launch of the book “Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World” in Melbourne recently there appeared consensus that such an outcome was unavoidable.

“Business as usual” is the obvious cause of global warming, along with the exponential growth in population, but it is certain that humanity has not the courage or the intellectual athleticism needed to shift to a world in which climate change mitigation is prioritized ahead of maintaining our financial wealth.

Humanity it lost at sea, its pockets burdened with gold coin, the markets for a life jacket and its last hope for rescue is with business as usual.

Its preservation begins with abandoning the gold coin, freeing itself from the market paradigm and realising that business as usual is not in the rescue business – humanity will have to save itself from itself.