The future is staring us in the face and the emerging shape of what's likely looks alarming.
From the Guardian:
Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'
Robin McKie, science editor
It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere had reached a level of 400 parts per million (ppm).
Massive movements of people are likely to occur over the rest of the century because global temperatures are likely to rise to by up to 5C because carbon dioxide levels have risen unabated for 50 years, said Stern, who is head of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change.
To think the wealth and power of the United States somehow exempts us from these what are likely to be cataclysmic events would be irresponsible and reckless. But that's where we're headed right now.
Then how is it even possible that a Democratic President is giving serious consideration to approving the Keystone XL pipeline?