Alastair B. McDonald wrote:

Sir James Bevan says extreme flooding in UK indicates urgent need for change
if humanity is to survive
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...is-hitting-wor
st-case-scenarios-warns-environment-agency-head

Good to see someone in a position of some authority stepping up to the plate
and telling it how it is. The crux of the problem is that the damage is already
done. The atmospheric CO2 concentration is at a level that would have been
unthinkable 50 years ago. Reducing emissions to net-zero by 2050 or whenever,
even if achieved globally, won't go 25% of the way towards solving the problem.
Sadly, I see that the inevitable outcome will be that humanity will have to
adapt, without planning, to a very different world within the next few decades.
As I said elsewhere recently this is increasingly worrying the younger you are.
It's all too easy to visualise how hundreds of people might die as a result of
climate change before the end of the century and the refugee problem has
potential to become orders of magnitude greater than anything we have seen so
far. This is a bit of a slow-burner that is unlikely to have a happy ending. It
will likely reach a scale in the relatively near future that will make the
Covid-19 pandemic seem like a side-show. Part of me is glad that I won't be
around for long enough to see how this eventually pans out and part of me would
like to see how it does all evolve. We should all fear for our grand-children
and their children, though.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr