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‘Scientists have long been worried about what many call \u201cthe methane bomb\u201d \u2014 the potentially catastrophic release of methane from thawing wetlands in Siberia\u2019s permafrost.<\/em> But now a study by three geologists says that a heat wave in 2020 has revealed a surge in methane emissions \u201cpotentially in much higher amounts\u201d from a different source: thawing rock formations in the Arctic permafrost.<\/em>‘ – The Washington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My sons are adults but still relatively young. They are going to lean toward denial because anything else is unbearable. But I’m going to have to tell them the truth, if they’re willing to hear it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The world is about to change for the worse. The steady incursion of climate change’s extreme weather is about to increase exponentially. We had a window to stop the fall of these dominoes but we can’t do it now, it’s too late. It won’t be the end of humanity but it’ll be the end of civilization as we know it. Our food supplies are going to truncate down to very, very small amounts.<\/strong><\/em> Unbelievable famines are coming to places that never had them before.<\/strong> Most of our farming land will turn to dustbowls in short order. There will be no fish in the sea, only in fish farms. Most wild animals are going to go away. Your chances of survival are going to be\u00a0 much slimmer too. It used to be your chances of survival to sixty years old, say, were pretty good. Now, not so good. I’d say you have a twenty per cent chance of living that long. In fact, if you don’t deal with the coming catastrophe in a pro-active way, your chances of living forty are very slim\u2026So if you want to survive, you have to make a plan. You have to try to work out what parts of the world are going to be safest, and find a way to get there; and you have to figure out how to survive there. I’m sorry. This is the fault of the generations that came before yours, including mine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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