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While government representatives sit idly, debating over cocktails whether to do something about global climate change with carbon trading schemes, their own houses are afire. Climate change, left unchecked, will doom every government on the planet, and it will happen much sooner than they presently imagine.
The odds that humans will be completely extinct within 100 years are rapidly rising. The causes are complex, but mostly inter-related. We have started the process, and it will soon become irreversible, but only a relative handful of humanity is able to recognize the threat, and they are too few to effect a change of course. The result is that we are in for a very unpleasant future...