"Some 1B ppl would be forced to attempt to relocate from unlivable conditions, & 2B would face scarcity of water. Agriculture wld collapse in the sub-tropics, & food prod would suffer dramatically worldwide. The internal cohesion of nation-states like US & China would unravel."
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"Even for 2°C of warming, more than a billion people may need to be relocated and in high-end scenarios, the scale of destruction is beyond our capacity to model with a high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end.”
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"The paper argues that the potentially 'extremely serious outcomes' of climate-related security threats are often far more probable than conventionally assumed, but almost impossible to quantify because they 'fall outside the human experience of the last thousand years.'"
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Report says we can still avoid this catastrophic scenarios by taking action “akin in scale to the World War II emergency mobilization” Btw, this report was written by a former fossil fuel executive (from Royal Dutch Shell), and backed by the former chief of Australia's military.
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