Tip of the Iceberg: The Coming Great Extinction

While the President of the US (our own contemporary Nero) fiddles, and Policymakers in the US Congress tinker, catastrophic changes in global climate are already beginning to manifest themselves in a year of unprecedented fires and floods across the globe. How much longer will the United States Congress and the people of this country wait before demanding dramatic policy changes to begin to reverse the dramatic increases in global temperatures that within this century may threaten humanity itself with extinction?!

Unless we act NOW, and dramatically reduce global warming gas emissions, recent scientific evidence indicates we may (in a tragic drama of global proportions) be driving ourselves and most of the rest of the planet's species toward global extinction within a century.

There is evidence we have already entered a period of greatly increasing rates of species extinction.

But there is evidence from a major extinction of the past that if the earth's climate rises another 6 degrees (which could happen within this century unless we dramatically reduce our production of global warming gasses), 90% of the species existing on earth, including human beings, could be pushed to extinction.

The Sixth Mass Extinction

Running Out of Time for Action to Prevent Catastrophic Effects of Global Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"

The time for dramatic policy action is NOW--not in 2010 or 2020, by which time it will be too late to reverse the tide of catastrophic change.

Fortunately, there are many good ideas and plans being developed to address this global crisis. But none of these good ideas and plans will be implemented unless the democratic peoples of the world rise up to demand that their politicians and governments act dramatically to change their environmental and industrial policies in fundamental ways, in line with the best scientific thinking and planning to mitigate the effects of global climate change.

We, the democratic peoples of the world, must bring about that change now, or stand tragic witness to our own generation's responsibility for the coming mass extinction, which will be inflicted by our own inaction on our children and grandchildren (who may be the last human generation).