By: Famousdrscanlon

Famousdrscanlon — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:11:02 +0000

Action, what action? 2024 was yet another record year for fossil fuel consumption and record greenhouse gas emissions. It beat the record from 2023 – see the pattern? I have since I began paying close attention in 1988 and with the exception of a couple of years (financial crash & Covid) both fossil fuel consumption and emissions set new records. This is called GOING BACKWARDS for over 40 years. Clearly almost everyone is choosing to live a lifestyle as polluting as their credit score will allow. The few who have reduced their consumption and vacations and thus emissions are so tiny they are statistically insignificant. I don’t need to hear another poser signalling. The truth is none of you did anything to change your behaviour to any level that matters and you are still playing ‘Pin The Blame’ and today’s donkey is so called ‘Doomers’. It’s been my experience that most so called doomers are much more knowledgeable about climate change and the other Overshoot predicament than a lightweight like you could ever imagine or would be willing to put in the many hundreds of hours of lecture watching and reading each year to become knowledgeable enough to know what they are talking about. This bash the doomer is an old game that is over 15 years old and after each year when you tally up, it’s the doomers, the pessimists who are right and they get their info from serious study, not 3 min cheerleader articles like this one.

In addition to fossil fuel use and emissions, do you know what else has been increasing? The number of scientists who say it’s too late for humans or go quiet and walk away. There is a minimum 3C more baked in and dozens of positive self reinforcing feedback loops are well underway. Runaway climate change, all by it’s self can finish off techno global industrial civilization and at a min will case a mass human die-back before this century is out, only runaway climate change is not by it’s self as far as existential predicaments go. Humans are deep into unprecedented global Overshoot and have radically impaired every natural system within the biosphere. Humans have polluted so much that there is growing evidence it is impairing their ability to reproduce. Biodiversity loss and ocean acidification are both existential threats and every day we pile more and more shit on the pile and it is only exceeded by magical thinking cheerleader articles like this one and insults from everywhere. Humans are not equipped to deal with problems and predicament of this nature. When the fear really kicks in, when the pretending no longer works the humans will snap.

*Humans will be extinct in 100 years says eminent scientist*

(PhysOrg.com) — Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts humans will probably be extinct within 100 years, because of overpopulation, environmental destruction and climate change.

Fenner, who is emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, said homo sapiens will not be able to survive the population explosion and “unbridled consumption,” and will become extinct, perhaps within a century, along with many other species.

He said he believes the situation is irreversible, and it is too late because the effects we have had on Earth since industrialization (a period now known to scientists unofficially as the Anthropocene) rivals any effects of ice ages or comet impacts.

Fenner said that climate change is only at its beginning, but is likely to be the cause of our extinction. More people means fewer resources, and Fenner predicts “there will be a lot more wars over food.”
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https://phys.org/news/2010-06-humans-extinct-years-eminent-scientist.html

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