New Report Suggests 'High Likelihood of Human Civilization Coming To an End' Starting in 2050

A harrowing scenario analysis of how human civilization might collapse in coming decades due to climate change has been endorsed by a former Australian defense chief and senior royal navy commander. From a report: The analysis, published by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, a think-tank in Melbourne, Australia, describes climate change as 'a near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization' and sets out a plausible scenario of where business-as-usual could lead over the next 30 years. The paper argues that the potentially 'extremely serious outcomes' of climate-related security threats are often far more probable than conventionally assumed, but almost impossible to quantify because they 'fall outside the human experience of the last thousand years.' On our current trajectory, the report warns, 'planetary and human systems [are] reaching a 'point of no return' by mid-century, in which the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order.'

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