{“Let’s be frank about what ‘catastrophe’ actually means in this context,” Hallam writes. “We are looking here at the slow and agonizing suffering and death of billions of people. A moral analysis might go like this: one recent scientific opinion stated that at 5°C above the pre-industrial mean temperature, we are looking at an ecological system capable of sustaining just one billion people. That means 6-7 billion people will have died within the next generation or two. Even if this figure is wrong by 90%, that means 600 million people face starvation and death in the next 40 years. This is 12 times worse than the death toll (civilians and soldiers) of World War Two and many times the death toll of every genocide known to history. It is 12 times worse than the horror of Nazism and Fascism in the 20th century. This is what our genocidal governments around the world are willingly allowing to happen. The word ‘genocide’ might seem out of context here. The word is often associated with ethnic cleansing or major atrocities like the Holocaust. However, the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition reads ‘the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.’ ”}

This goes hand in hand with my other reply on the Obama article. Our entire society is near extinction. What I didn't mention in that forum was energy. While the vast majority of our population continues in their state of conditioned thought process, they continue to sacrifice their children who then give birth to more children who will either become slaves to the elite or become the dead of their system they can escape from within their wealth build off our backs. And all because we allow them to dictate the type of energy sources in use and ignore the technologies to move us into the future. When will that change? When half the population of the planet is under dirt or water and they need it. This is better than a WWIV to them. WWIII isn't working quite quick enough for them. It seems we're fighting both at the same time though.

I agree with the premise of getting rid of the ruling elites, but the method is debatable.