That is not what I’m on about.

I’m quoting George Monbiot’s latest article. Ignore, if it offends you, the fury he directs at the outgoing US administration and its environmental policies. Blame may be even less important than polar bears. Get to the rest.

The thrust of the important stuff (I’ve linked what footnotes I can for your bibliographical delectation) is this:

A new summary of the science published since last year’s Intergovernmental Panel report suggests that – almost a century ahead of schedule – the critical climate processes might have begun. [link]

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The effects of melting permafrost are not incorporated into any global climate models. Runaway warming in the Arctic alone could flip the entire planet into a new climatic state. The Middle Climate could collapse faster and sooner than the grimmest forecasts proposed.

Barack Obama’s speech to the US climate summit last week was an astonishing development…But while he described a workable plan for dealing with the problem perceived by the Earth Summit of 1992, the measures he proposes are now hopelessly out of date…A paper by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research shows that if we are to give ourselves a roughly even chance of preventing more than two degrees of warming, global emissions from energy must peak by 2015 and decline by between six and eight per cent per year from 2020 to 2040… [link]

Point being: midnight has come early. Either Cindarella marries the eco-prince and lives sustainably ever after or she gets back in the oil-powered carriage and the world gets extreme weather, desertification, sea-level rises, famine, socio-economic strife, and all the evils pertaining thereunto. Those evils including but not limited to disease, resource wars, political extrematisation, famine, rising sea-levels…

Do I sound like a lunatic? Does this sound like a disaster movie?

Yeah, I think so, too. Unfortunately, our world gets more like that every day.