<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 7.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People</b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Creator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter.</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Bios/William_E__Rees/" class=""><b class="">William E. Rees</b></a><b class=""> 18 Sep 2019 | <a href="http://TheTyee.ca" class="">TheTyee.ca</a></b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">William E. Rees is professor emeritus of human ecology and ecological economics at the University of British Columbia.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/" class="">https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/09/18/Climate-Crisis-Wipe-Out/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Excerpts</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Prominent climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director emeritus of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, <a href="https://climateextremes.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/What-Lies-Beneath-V3-LR-Blank5b15d.pdf" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">argues</span></a> that, in these circumstances “a trend towards ‘erring on the side of least drama’ has emerged” and “when the issue is the survival of civilization is at stake, conventional means of analysis may become useless.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Exploring this argument, policy analysts David Spratt and Ian Dunlop <a href="https://climateextremes.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/What-Lies-Beneath-V3-LR-Blank5b15d.pdf" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">conclude</span></a>, “Climate policymaking for years has been cognitively dissonant, ‘a flagrant violation of reality.’ So it is unsurprising that there is a lack of understanding amongst the public and elites of the full measure of the climate challenge.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">As much as a decade ago a climate symposium organized to discuss the implications of a 4 C warmer world concluded, “Less than a billion people will survive.” Here Schellnhuber is </span><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/earth-4c-hotter/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">quoted</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""> as saying: “At 4 C Earth’s... carrying capacity estimates are below 1 billion people.” His words were echoed by professor Kevin Anderson of the U.K.’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change: “Only about 10 per cent of the planet’s population would survive at 4 C.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(57, 57, 57); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Similarly, in May of this year, Johan Rockström, current director of the Potsdam Institute <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">opined</span></a> that in a 4 C warmer world: “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that.... There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.” Meanwhile, greenhouse gas concentrations are still increasing.</span></p><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>***************************************************************************************************************<br class="">"No one wanted to pay attention to the implications of a world four degrees warmer… It's too horrendous to think about. And no one talked about it. <br class=""><br class="">"Then a few scientists said let's have a conference and actually talk about it. They held this conference in Oxford and I went along. <br class=""><br class="">"As the conference started, there was a kind of suppressed emotional intensity, except in the coffee breaks. It was then that I would buttonhole a couple of scientists and say: 'Well, you know we're speculating about this. But what do you really think is the situation?' And one of them just looked at me and said: 'We're f--ked.'" — Clive Hamilton <br class=""> <br class="">Paul Kennedy. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Thursday September 07, 2017<br class=""><<<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614" class="">http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/are-we-f-ked-decoding-the-resistance-to-climate-change-1.4277614</a>>></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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