[korantu]

> “senior U.N. environmental official” claims that if global warming isn’t reversed by 2030, then rising sea levels could wipe “entire nations . . . off the face of the Earth.” > Crop failures coupled with coastal flooding, he said, could provoke “an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ ” whose movements could wreak political chaos the world over. Unabated, the ice caps will melt away, the rainforests will burn, and the world will warm to unbearable temperatures. > Governments “have a ten-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effects before it goes beyond human control,” said the U.N. official. [0]

the above was published by U.N. official in 1989, with point of no return being year 2000, not 2030. People knew it for more than 20 years already.

It is important to keep in mind that alarmism can actually be harmful, where instead of doing anything people just have their burger whole try can, as there is no point doing anything anymore. [1]

[0] https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25...

[magicnubs]

> instead of doing anything people just have their burger whole try can

I assume this is just a typo, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the original was

[makerofspoons]

I read it as "instead of doing anything people will just have their burger while they can"