HUMAN CIVILISATION MAY END BY 2050

                    HUMAN CIVILISATION MAY END BY 2050, SAYS REPORT

SOURCE: News paper Times of India

Human civilization as we know it may have already entered its last decades, a new report examining the likely future of our planets habitability warns. The increasingly disastrous impacts of the climate crisis, coupled with inaction to tackle it are sending our planet down a bleak path towards an increasingly chaotic world which could overwhelm societies around, the report’s authors content. The paper is produced by Melbourne-based think tank the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration. The paper argues that “climate change now represents a near to mid-term existential threat to human civilization,” and calls for a recalibration in how governments respond to estimated climate scenarios so they take worst case projections more seriously.

The report calls for an overhaul in countries risk management “which is fundamentally different from conventional practice”. “It would focus on high-end, unprecedented possibilities, instead of assessing middle-of-the-road probabilities on the  basis of historic experience.” (THE INDEPENDENT)