Swelling deserts have exploded urban centers' populations.
This is what happened in 2010 and 2011 that helped produce the Arab Spring.
A report from the Center for American Progress, the Center for Climate and Security, and the Stimson Center states:
"The Arab Spring would likely have come one way or another, but the context in which it did is not inconsequential. Global warming may not have caused the Arab Spring, but it may have made it come earlier."
William Chemaly of the Global Protection Cluster, a network of nongovernmental organizations (NGO), international aid groups, and United Nations agencies, warned:
"Climate change is crippling livelihoods, exacerbating food insecurity, and intensifying armed conflict and violent extremism."
Between 1980 and 2000, 100 million tropical forest hectares disappeared, mainly due to cattle ranching in South America and palm oil plantation farming in Southeast Asia.
According to a 1,800-page United Nations global assessment Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IBPES) report more than 450 scientists and diplomats took over three years to compile from 15,000 academic studies and reports, the accelerating decline of Earth's natural life-support systems has made everything endangered species-including human beings.
According to the report, nature is being obliterated tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10 million years.
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego reports:
"The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20."
Humans' damage to the planet is due to an explosion in population (doubled since 1970), staggering economic growth, and global trade that has led to destruction of forests, particularly in tropical areas.
Some hopeful signs for us lie in the fact that Joe Biden has vowed to re-admit the United States to the Paris Climate Accords from which we officially withdrew Nov. 4--the day after the presidential election.
Climate groups like the Sunrise Movement were successful in moving Biden-and even invited-to help hone his climate plan into, as former Obama administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy, called, "by a long shot the most ambitious we have ever seen from any president in our nation's history," resulting in the most progressive climate and economic plan of any Democratic nominee in modern American history.
Yet he still refuses to ban fracking.
He has vociferously distanced himself from the Green New Deal, the non-binding bicameral resolution calling for 100 percent net zero-emission power by 2030, a federal jobs guarantee, solid union jobs retrofitting and re-building crumbling infrastructure, universal health care, and affordable housing.
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