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C limate Change: Your Money or Your Life

The Journal of psychohistory, 2020-07, Vol.48 (1), p.2-22 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Association for Psychohistory, Inc. Summer 2020 ;ISSN: 0145-3378

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  • Title:
    C limate Change: Your Money or Your Life
  • Author: Adams, Kenneth Alan
  • Subjects: Advertising ; Atmosphere ; Capitalism ; Carbon ; Climate change ; Consumers ; Consumption ; Earth ; Emissions ; Global warming ; Greenhouse effect ; Heat ; Oceans ; Sea level
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of psychohistory, 2020-07, Vol.48 (1), p.2-22
  • Description: More carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere now than at any time in human history, reaching 415.26 parts per million (ppm) in May, 2019.24 The last time the amount of carbon in the atmosphere was 400 ppm, sea levels were "nearly 100 feet" higher than today.25 There were no humans then.26 U.S. climatologist, Michael Mann, warns that the planet's carbon problem might be much worse than the IPCC has estimated, making it even more mandatory that countries transition to renewable energy with the same urgency that "drove the U.S. industrial mobilization in World War Two. By 2100, one study puts the total number of properties submerged at 2.4 million, at a cost of $1 trillion.29 According to scientists, greenhouse gas emissions accelerated like a "speeding freight train" in 2018.30 If warming is held to 2.7 degrees F, 1.5 degrees Celsius (C), the UN makes the conservative estimate that the cost of climate change will be $54 trillion, but the cost would grow to $69 trillion if warming reaches 3.6 degrees F or more.31 (1 degree C = 1.8 degrees F) The IPCC, which includes more than 1,300 scientists from around the world, "forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5-10 degrees F over the next century." To provide historical perspective to the magnitude of such a global temperature change and its climatological consequences, "at the end of the last ice age, when the Northeast United States was covered by more than 3,000 feet of ice, average temperatures were only 5 to 9 degrees cooler than today. Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman found an 11 percent chance of six degrees C of warming just by repeatedly running models of warming.39 A "worst-case" business-as-usual model of climate change could yield a rise in temperature of eight degrees C. At eight degrees the oceans would eventually swell to two hundred feet higher, flooding what are now two-thirds of the world's major cities; hardly any land on the planet would be capable of efficiently producing any of the food we now eat; forests would be roiled by rolling storms of fire, and coasts would be punished by more and more intense hurricanes; the suffocating hood of tropical disease would reach northward to enclose parts of what we now call the Arctic; probably a third of the planet would be made unlivable by heat; and what are today literally unprecedented and intolerable droughts and heat waves would be the quotidian conditions of whatever human life was able to endure.40 And there is one more turn of the screw.
  • Publisher: New York: Association for Psychohistory, Inc
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0145-3378
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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