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I always try to follow what's happening in the world about climate change due to the greenhouse effect and I'm more and more convinced that we cannot adapt our world to this trend but we must make something effective, within few years, to stop or limit the fast increase of CO2 at the base of this global warming.
Not doing it means to surrender to a global disaster, with the collapse of our civilization toward the chaos of hunger, misery, lack of energy for whatever activity and cruel wars among us to grab the last resources available.

The actual warming is already causing an increase of the average temperature of the planet between 2.5 and 6.0C within the next 50 years; the esteems are uncertain on the exact value, but the warming will be a reality and the whole climate and environment of the world will be totally modified, with mass extinctions of animals and plants, unable to adapt themselves to such a fast change and a multiplication of extreme phenomena, within few decades:

1) Hurricanes and typhoons, floods and thunderstorms, everywhere rains fall, could make totally inhabitable whole regions like the Caribbean coasts or those of western Asia, from India to China.

2) A great advance of deserts northward to include also the Mediterranean regions of Europe, central U.S. and Asia and, southward, South Africa;

3) An increasing dryness of tropical and Equatorial forests (Amazonas, Congo, Indochina and Indonesia) until make them burn and become dry savannas or even deserts.

4) Melting of polar ice-caps (aready in course!), above all, of the North Pole and, partially, also of the Antarctica and of all the mountain glaciers of the world (that will become drier, not providing anymore constant water to the planes at their feet).
This will raise of 5, 10 or even 20 metres the oceans levels (let's consider that only the melting of the whole Antarctic ice cap would raise seas levels of about 65 metres!), until submerging all coastal planes of the world and their towns, just where most populations live and cultivate the land.
Also the flat atolls of the tropical seas will be submerged and many hundreds of millions of people will be obliged to emigrate elsewhere (but WHERE?), with dreadful social and economic consequences.

5) Rains will become more irregular and associated to very violent phenomena (as already occurring in the last 20-30 years), that will erode the soil, rather than fertilize it.
This, because the hotter atmosphere will accumulate and discharge more energy (just

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