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Climate change
Are We There Yet?
When will the world end as we know it?
I sit here on my couch, with my laptop on my lap this weekend asking a very existential question. As I scour news feeds to pick out news stories from around the world to add to my weekly podcast, I have to ask, when is the world as we know it going to end?
I know it won’t be in my lifetime but probably not many generations after me. Three? Four? Scientists are predicting the end of the world as we know it by the end of this century. So, by 2100 then?
With global warming ramping up, causing lakes to dry up all over the world, huge migrations of people leaving their dry, war-torn countries for a better home, and the populations already there pushing back hard, more wars are inevitable.
Many wonder if we will have another global conflict worse than the last one.
World War II was bad enough with millions killed during the conflicts and many others starving and dying in the years immediately afterward as the Allies swooped in to divide up the booty from what was left of Germany and Japan. The Marshall Plan was a good thing but nowhere near what was needed.
