The Holocene is the 11,700 years of
stable environmental weather since the last major glacial epoch (ice age), in
other words, now. But since the industrial revolution, humans have contributed
huge amounts of carbon emissions that have sped up the timeline to our extinction as a viable
species on Earth. “Habitat destruction, pollution, and other factors are
causing an ongoing mass extinction of plant and animal species; according to
some projections, 20% of all plant and animal species on Earth will be extinct
within the next 25 years” – University of
CA Museum of Paleontology. At the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009, the
only agreement 167 of the major polluting countries in the world would sign was
to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Today we have measured the rise
in global temperature at 0.8 degrees Celsius. That means we are almost halfway
to the maximum rise considered to be survivable. And we are running out of
time. The companies lobbying hardest to avoid any restrictions on their ability
to make profits from polluting our atmosphere will not survive when oceans rise, drought greatly reduces our food supply, water
becomes more expensive than gasoline, and our human species can no longer survive in such a hostile environment. Those companies will have to be nationalized and their corporate wealth spent creating
a safe place for humans to live on a dying planet.
I’m just sayin’…
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