The author provides us with scientific evidence that our capitalist masters refuse to acknowledge because they are addicted to a system that supplies them with their drugs of wealth and power. In short, we humans are already in deep doo-doo; but if we continue to allow their system to function, we will be flushed down the toilet of extinction.
If all industrial activity stopped right now, we would already be committed to 2.65°C, a global average temperature rise of three times what we are currently experiencing. With all the drought, flooding, hurricanes, landslides, fires, and other manifestations of climate change that we are undergoing now, I shudder to think what the world will be like in 2050 and yet humans continue to burn coal and other fossil fuels at breakneck speed. According to the Climate Accountability Institute, half of all emissions have been produced in the past 25 years.