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Until now I and most of my classmates has done their best to post articles that promote and make the best of the current situation that we all live. Unfortunately the majority of the articles that I find are much more grim and it is impossible to ignore the future of Human life on planet earth. The promotion of individual restrictions on consumption and energy use is simply not going to effect anything seriously enough to matter. The socio-political nature of our lives in the "first" world must change dramatically NOW to have any real impact on any realistic scale. The article that I am posting goes in depth to explain that

"A four-degree C overall increase means a world where temperatures will be two degrees warmer in some places, 12 degrees and more in others, making them uninhabitable.

It is a world with a one- to two-metre sea level rise by 2100, leaving hundreds of millions homeless. This will head to 12 metres in the coming centuries as the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets melt, according to papers presented at the [UK international climate science] conference [recently held] in Oxford.

Four degrees of warming would be hotter than any time in the last 30 million years, and it could happen as soon as 2060 to 2070.[1]"

 With our worlds top scientists making claims like this it has become unbearable to ignore, and even harder for anyone to simply say that we all can make a difference. In reality here at home, the US government is doing everything it can to  secure more fossil fuels in Iraq when to make life habitable we must cut our use in half!

As Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Australian National University, points out in "Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?", "It is clear that limiting warming to 2ºC is beyond us; the question now is whether we can limit warming to 4ºC. The conclusion that, even if we act promptly and resolutely, the world is on a path to reach 650 ppm and associated warming of 4°C is almost too frightening to accept. Yet that is the reluctant conclusion of the world’s leading climate scientists. Even with the most optimistic set of assumptions — the ending of deforestation, a halving of emissions associated with food production, global emissions peaking in 2020 and then falling by 3 per cent a year for a few decades — we have no chance of preventing emissions rising well above a number of critical tipping points that will spark uncontrollable climate change."[2]

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this is the article (http://www.energybulletin.net/node/50697) long but worth it PLEASE READ