PENTAGON REPORT: APOCALYPSE NOW!
Published February 24, 2004
* Deaths from war and famine run into the millions until the planet's population is reduced by such an extent the Earth can cope.
* Riots and internal conflict tear apart India, South Africa and Indonesia.
* Access to water becomes a major battleground. The Nile, Danube and Amazon are all mentioned as being high risk.
* A 'significant drop' in the planet's ability to sustain its present population will become apparent over the next 20 years.
* Rich areas like the US and Europe would become 'virtual fortresses' to prevent millions of migrants from entering after being forced from land drowned by sea-level rise or no longer able to grow crops. Waves of boatpeople pose significant problems.
* Nuclear arms proliferation is inevitable. Japan, South Korea, and Germany develop nuclear-weapons capabilities, as do Iran, Egypt and North Korea. Israel, China, India and Pakistan also are poised to use the bomb.
* By 2010 the US and Europe will experience a third more days with peak temperatures above 90F. Climate becomes an 'economic nuisance' as storms, droughts and hot spells create havoc for farmers.
* More than 400m people in subtropical regions at grave risk.
* Europe will face huge internal struggles as it copes with massive numbers of migrants washing up on its shores. Immigrants from Scandinavia seek warmer climes to the south. Southern Europe is beleaguered by refugees from hard-hit countries in Africa.
* Mega-droughts affect the world's major breadbaskets, including America's Midwest, where strong winds bring soil loss.
* China's huge population and food demand make it particularly vulnerable. Bangladesh becomes nearly uninhabitable because of a rising sea level, which contaminates the inland water supplies.
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And what happened to that Kyoto Agreement? Oh yeah, Bush scrapped it.
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1) global warming is real
2) the administration's refusal to accept the obvious is disingenuous pandering to special interests, the worst part of the administration's worst part (energy policy in general).
3) but this report is still completely speculative and is obviously a worst-case scenario.
Both you and the Observer fudge that part a bit.
re. Worst case scenario planning -
I guess I tend to want to err on the side of survival. (and had the Pentagon, INS, FBI, CIA, et al. done other 'worst case' planning, we might not be in some of messes we're in now.)
btw: you can throw out global warming and replace it with 6 billion plus on the planet -- and a BEST case scenario is pretty friggin' scary.
The good news: max out those credit cards, kids, 'cause it looks like we might not be around to have to pay 'em off.
Just as a side note, this has been reported in various places, this is both old news and hardly supressed.
The report isn't secret, it wasn't suppressed, the Observer isn't the first to "obtain" it, and it was prepared for, rather than by, the Pentagon. Fortune magazine had the whole story last month
Sorry about the garbage quotes.... It's a cut and paste boo-boo.
Thanks for the links, Casper.
The Fortune article did include a useful thought:
"Over the past decade, data have accumulated suggesting that the plausibility of abrupt climate change is higher than most of the scientific community, and perhaps all of the political community, are prepared to accept. In light of such findings, we should be asking when abrupt change will happen, what the impacts will be, and how we can prepare--not whether it will really happen. In fact, the climate record suggests that abrupt change is inevitable at some point, regardless of human activity."
Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!!
Help, Help, the sky is falling!!!!!
you can see the sky with your head stuck in the sand?
cool!!
One web address:
Where will you be?
Dave,
In case of rapture, can I have your car?
Nature appears to move in two paths: slow and gradual, like the incremental generational changes of typical evolution; and cataclysmically, which happens periodically one way or another via volcanic activity, abrupt climate change, asteroids, or when really fat people trip and fall.
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