How the single greatest environmental and humanitarian event in the history of humankind goes almost unnoticed

The world is experiencing a situation that hasn’t happened in at least 3 million years, most likely in 13 million years. It is something that climate models and scientists had foreseen that only could happen within quite a few years, and this even in the most catastrophic of all scenarios.

The saddest part is that, in the face of what is surely the start signal of the worst crisis that our species has ever encountered, if we survive it, there appears to be a blank silence, an empty space and no significant comments. Perhaps scientists are still evaluating and assessing how wrong their models were and how they could have missed this or maybe people really don’t realise the importance and future impacts of this.

Maybe politicians are thinking that they’ve lost great chances of mitigating and reverting this state of affairs at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in 2009, the Copenhagen Accord (2009), the Cancun Agreements (2010), and – most important – the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (2011), when they failed to reach a solid commitment. Or maybe they are just counting how much more money they think they will be able to make by all the riches now being uncovered by the melting ice.

Here are some links where you can check for yourself how serious this is and how mediocre our mainstream media are, for not covering what is the single most important event in millions of years of life on Earth:

http://www.monbiot.com/2012/08/27/the-heat-of-the-moment/

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/asi-2012-update-10-at-a-loss.html?cid=6a0133f03a1e37970b017744565052970d

http://www.climatecodered.org/2012/08/arctic-sea-ice-melt-record-more-than.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClimateCodeRed+%28climate+code+red%29

 

Here is some more info on what will happen to the Artic beyond a certain tipping point, when it will turn from a sink to an emitter more powerful than all the deforestation and machines combined. This may be happening already as of this year:

http://arctic-news.blogspot.co.uk/p/runaway-warming.html

http://www.clubofrome.org/?p=3425

 

The consequences will be huge and far-reaching, and humans mostly think that they can apply quick-fixes such as geoengineering. Irresponsible fools and criminals, that’s what we are proving to be as a species.

Currently there can be no greater humanitarian concern than the concern for the environment. Unfortunately, most people are too busy “rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic” to realise how important the environment is to us, humans. Without a safe environment, there is no humanity to save or children to feed. I really hope that we, developed mammals realise this urgently, or else we will succumb to our greed and arrogance.

My advice to you reading this is: start preparing yourself, the world as we know it is doomed, our dreams of even maintaining a quality of life vaguely resembling what we currently have are being shattered, while most don’t even realise it. In the next few months and years there is going to be progressive yet radical and decisive change.

Be ready for it, because it will happen, its simply a matter of time.

And many will then try to come with the technological fix, with geoengineering and the like.

When they come, RESIST IT UNTIL EXHAUSTION!!!

If taken forward, it will most likely signify the premature end of the human species, and of life on Earth as we know it. The result would most likely be something in the genre of throwing cold water over burning oil (if you don’t know about it, do a search on google, it sounds like a sensible thing to do, right?).

 

Some simple solutions:
+ Become a vegetarian or, even better, a vegan;
+ Increase organic farming dramatically and stop all Genetic Engineering, Increasing also tremendously the acreage of organic farming;
+ Expand the numbers and scope of neo-rurals and new-rurals, become one yourself !;
+ Increase dramatically overland travel and transportation, as opposed to air-miles;
+ Transport only on-season fruit and vegetables for consumption, from local production;
+ Change our industrial systems, subsidies, grants and incentives, in order to reflect the true cost of items;
+ Ramp-up telecommuting and working from home;
+ Divert subsidies to renewables and increase their usage;
+ Transport and sell items using only natural and truly biodegradable packaging;
+ Farm and fish within reasonable limits, so that the Earth’s ecosystems can thrive.