A new paper on climate change has grabbed the headlines this week as it predicts that the world will end in thirty years. The absence of drastic measures to deal with climate change and its adverse effects and the seemingly non-action of human societies has caused the situation to worsen.
"World of outright chaos" and "We're all gonna die" -- these are just some of the banners that came with the release of the results of this new study. The media banners blared and it is sending concern among people who have gone across it.
The paper is focused on presenting what its authors referred to as the "scenario analysis" and the disconcerting stories of Breakthrough National Center For Climate Restoration, an Australian think-tank company.
The paper showed what the earth would be like by the year 2050 if urgent action to stop the production of carbon emissions were not taken. The call to produce a carbon-neutral sources of energy systems in the world has been written down in an agreement in Paris, and yet the paper shows what it would be like if this agreement were to fail in fruition. The portrayal of the world in the next ten years is worse than any apocalyptic Hollywood film ever produced.
"A billion people will be displaced and more will be suffering from conditions we can describe as lethal heat. This heat is beyond the threshold of survival of any living creature," said Ian Dunlop, co-author of the paper. "This paper shows the outright chaos that the world will be suffering from. It puts an end to the human civilization as we know it."
David Spratt, a climate researcher and co-author of the study, said that the reports of their paper may be "over the top" but he maintained that the warnings made were all legitimate.
"We are somehow approaching the end game in this war against climate change, but there are still a few chess pieces left to use. We have to take action to fight it fast," Spratt said.
He challenged climate scientists, especially those from the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be more open to the public of the calamity that is to set in if this fight against climate change does not push through. If nothing is done to address the continued production of carbon emissions, the global public must know what they are up against.
