Climate Change and Human Extinction - A Personal Perspective
Channel: peakmoment
Date: 24/03/2014

"Just one source, methane from the arctic...leads us [by 2030] to...a temperature beyond which humans have never existed on the planet." Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of University of Arizona in Environmental Studies, shares highlights from his compilation of recent reports on climate change effects. Their number and extent have grown exponentially since he began five years ago. In this interview, he shares his personal journey through despair and deep grief to recent acceptance. "I suspect we get to see the end of this movie... Nobody else in human history [has]... We get to see how humans act in the face of their own demise." Episode 262. [guymcpherson.com] Watch Guy's Climate Change presentation February 2014 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO1l3mPRkeg).