Monday, March 05, 2018By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report
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A draft UN report has warned that missing the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Climate Accords will multiply hunger, migration and conflict around the globe. The 1.5°C target means limiting atmospheric temperatures from rising more than 1.5°C above what they were prior to the industrial revolution when humans began emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
The report, slated to be finalized this coming September, provides several sobering points (the draft summary of the report can be read here):
• The UK’s Met Office predicts a 1 in 10 chance the global average will flicker over 1.5°C within five years, meaning, we’re already very close to the 1.5°C line…
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Exposing the Big Game 
The planet is already in trouble. Overpopulated countries are already struggling with poverty, hunger, lack of education, and political corruption. Failed states struggle with lawlessness, terrorism, and warring factions. Others have seen genocide and religious strife.
Migration has already caused concern throughout Europe as large numbers from different cultures came too fast. Observers around the world have warned that if conditions don’t improve or if they get worse from climate change, political upheaval, and/or population pressure that “no amount of walls, guns, barbed wire, armed aerial drones, or permanently deployed mercenaries will be able to save one half the planet from the other.” (Population Connection, Volume 49, Issue 2, June 2017, p. 19).