The media have made “socialism” a dirty word for the
audacity to argue that the resources of the planet should be for the benefit of
all people rather than used in the interests of a small minority. Climate
change inaction by world governments and the corporations now means that there
is now a little or no possibility for them avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree
Celsius temperature rise even though we know what the problem is and how to
solve it. Unfortunately the changes needed in our society is not happening and
as a consequence serious climate disruption is already occurring.
Currently 5 million people die each year from climate change
(0.5 million) or carbon burning (4.5
million) but an estimated 10 billion will die this century in a worsening
climate genocide if man-made climate
change is not adequately addressed.
Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN
Population Division) , these estimates translate to a climate genocide
involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly
twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups,
specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a
terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans,
0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis.
Out of a US
population of 315 million, 1.5 million Americans die preventably each
year with 33,000 Americans killed by motor vehicles each year, 70,000 Americans
dying annually from air pollution (e.g.
from coal burning, vehicle exhaust, carbon burning in general) and, as estimated by scientists from from
85-Nobel-Laureate MIT, 53,000
premature deaths occur each year in the US because of vehicle
emissions. In 2011 about 150,000 people died preventably that year in the UK
(2011 population 62.4 million) and of those 5,000 died from vehicle exhaust. In
Australia (population 24 million) about 80,000 people die preventably each year
with 2,200 dying from vehicle exhaust and 2,000 dying from vehicle accidents.
The WHO estimates that 7 million people die each year for air pollution and
DARA estimates that 5 million people die annually from climate change (0.5
million ) and carbon–burning (4.5 million). An estimated 10 billion people will
die this century if man-made climate change is not adequately addressed.
The world is rapidly running out if time to deal effectively
with man-made climate change. Indeed there is a high probability that we have
already passed the point beyond which a catastrophic 2C temperature rise is
unavoidable and many conclude it is now too late to avoid major global environmental
but continue to urge measures to mitigate climate change action to minimize the
harm. The fraudulence of the consensus seeking conference and summit approach –
those "goals" for emission reductions, these "offsets" that
render the goals almost meaningless, the ineffectual "cap-and-trade"
mechanism – must be exposed. The “market-based” climate solutions favored by so
many large foundations and adopted by many greens have provided an invaluable
service to the fossil fuel sector as a whole.
The ugly truth is that already 17 million people die avoidably
each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease, that 1.3 billion people have died thus since
1950, and that unaddressed man-made climate change may lift this carnage to an
average of 100 million people dying avoidably each year this century. The top One Percent owns about 50% of the
global wealth, and 17 million people die annually from deprivation with the One
Percenters hell-bent on stealing, dangerously polluting and indeed terminally
violating the one common atmosphere and ocean of all people. The One Percenters
own about 50% of global wealth with the remaining 99% of Humanity owning the
other half. The bottom 90% are crazy if
they permit continuation of a system in which the One Percenter and Ten
Percenter share of annual income is increasing and permit the One Percenters in
effect to make the laws.
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