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Already global warming is having major human impact, but the healthy in priveliged societies will not really feel the impact for another 20 years or so. The wealthy willobviously escape much of the medium term fall out.
Coupled with declining fossil fuel production, life for many poor people will become intolerable. Or should I say more people will fall into intolerable poverty, but their voices will never be heard. Food production is so heavily dependent upon fossil fuels the prospects for large numbers of humans is bleak indeed.
The only question is whether the earth's environment will ever stabilise or has it already been pushed beyond the limits of its homeostatic mechanisms and desolation is inevitable. The skeptics in the know are not sceptical about global warming, but whether mankind has the capacity to affect the inevitable catastrophe that is maybe less than 1 or 2 centuries away. For them its simply a matter of making hay while the sun shines as collapse is sure to follow. But they will never tell you that because individual people are too small and insignificant to count.
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