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Clean energy, Global Warming, Government, Rainforest Collapse, Sea Level Rise, Warnings

We are headed in a direction where large areas the planet become unihabitable

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Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable

“In a report for the sustainability group Future Earth, a survey of scientists found that extreme weather events, food insecurity, freshwater shortages and the broad degradation of life-sustaining ecosystems “have the potential to impact and amplify one another in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse.” A 2019 report from the Breakthrough National Center for Climate Restoration, a think tank in Australia, projected that a rapidly warming world of depleted resources and mounting pollution would lead to “a largely uninhabitable Earth” and a “breakdown of nations and the international order.” Analysts in the U.S. and British military over the past two years have issued similar warnings of climate- and environment-driven chaos.”

It gets worse:

“If you are a nonhuman species, collapse is well underway. Ninety-nine percent of the tall grass prairie in North America is gone, by one estimate; 96% of the biomass of mammals — biomass is their weight on Earth — now consists of humans, our pets and our farm animals; nearly 90% of the fish stocks the U.N. monitors are either fully exploited, over exploited or depleted; a multiyear study in Germany showed a 76% decline in insect biomass.”

It will not be long before the Amazon rainforest and similar large ecosystems start collapsing and turning into deserts. Once that happens, equatorial regions are likely to become so hot that nothing can survive. Once that happens the oceans heat up to the point where they become uninhabitable as well. Melting ice raises sea levels a hundred feet or more and it is game-over for modern civilization as we know it.

What is so incredibly depressing here is that humanity could bind together and start correcting these problems. Humanity could:

All of these steps are within our grasp. But can humanity get its act together and undertake any of them?

“The Doomsday Book” by Marshall Brain lays out this scenario in amazing detail and offers solutions to prevent this doomsday scenario from unfolding. You can order the book today on Amazon and other retailers.

Clean energy, Global Warming, Mass Extinction, Rainforest Collapse, Warnings

The biggest threat to humanity right now is the rising carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere

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The biggest threat to humanity right now is the rising carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. If this continues it will lead to all of these doomsday scenarios:

It will be catastrophe on top of catastrophe, essentially ruining the planet. Therefore this article is a wake up call:

Rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues unabated

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere continues to rise, say scientists. On June 4, 2020, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography announced that atmospheric CO2 measured at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached a seasonal peak of 417.1 parts per million for 2020 in May, the highest monthly reading ever recorded.

400 parts per million was once considered to be a “red line”. We are now well above that, and the consequences are dire unless humanity changes course:

Progress in emissions reductions is not visible in the CO2 record. We continue to commit our planet – for centuries or longer – to more global heating, sea level rise, and extreme weather events every year. If humans were to suddenly stop emitting CO2, it would take thousands of years for our CO2 emissions so far to be absorbed into the deep ocean and atmospheric CO2 to return to pre-industrial levels.

This is why humanity needs a war-level of effort to eliminate fossil fuels and then start pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. This needs to happen immediately, and is within our power.

“The Doomsday Book” by Marshall Brain lays out this scenario in amazing detail and offers solutions to prevent this doomsday scenario from unfolding. You can order the book today on Amazon and other retailers.

Clean energy, Global Warming

U.S. Coal-fired power plants have massive carbon dioxide Emissions

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This article that highlights the biggest coal-fired power plants in the United States, along with their mega-tonnage of carbon dioxide emissions:

Here is the list:

  • The Scherer plant in Juliet, GA — 25.3 million tons
  • The Miller plant in Quinton, AL — 20.6 million tons
  • The Bowen plant in Cartersville, GA — 20.5 million tons
  • The Gibson plant in Owensville, IN — 20.4 million tons
  • The W.A. Parish plant in Thompsons, TX — 20 million tons
  • The Navajo plant in Page, AZ — 19.9 million tons
  • The Martin Lake plant in Tatum, TX — 19.8 million tons
  • The Cumberland plant in Cumberland City, TN — 19.6 million tons
  • The Gavin plant in Cheshire, OH — 18.7 million tons
  • The Sherburne County plant in Becker, MN — 17.9 million tons
  • The Bruce Mansfield plant in Shippingport, PA — 17.4 million tons
  • The Rockport plant in Rockport, IN — 16.6 million tons

That is 236 megatons of carbon dioxide emissions in these 12 power plants. The article states:

Globally, power generation emits nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 per year. The U.S., with over 8,000 power plants out of the more than 50,000 worldwide, accounts for about 25 percent of that total or 2.8 billion tons. CARMA shows that the U.S.’s biggest CO2 emitter is Southern Co. with annual emissions of 172 million tons, followed by American Electric Power Company Inc., Duke Energy Corp., and AES Corp.

Since the article was written in 2007, you might think that all of these would have been decommissioned in the last 13 years and replaced with something cleaner. You would be wrong. The good news is that two of them have closed, but the other 10 are still open, generating megatons of carbon dioxide every year. Each one has its own Wikipedia page:

Clean energy

New reasons to abandon all coal-fired power plants

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As discussed in the book, humanity must stop using all fossil fuels. One easy place for this to happen is through the elimination of coal-fired power plants. This article shows how easy (and economically rewarding) the elimination of coal-fired power plants could be:

The International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) has found that up to 1,200 gigawatts of the world’s existing coal capacity could cost more to run than the cost of new utility-scale solar plants. If energy companies replaced only their most expensive coal plants with new solar power projects or onshore wind farms, totalling 500 GW globally, they could save up to $23bn (£18bn) every year and wipe out 5% of last year’s total global carbon emissions, according to Irena.

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Lawmakers push to replace state’s largest coal plant with renewable energy