Dennis Meadows: Collapse inevitable 2015-2020

[NickB79]

17. That's a very hard comparison to make

Between WWI and WWII, we witnessed approximately 75-80 million deaths due to the wars.

Today, we're looking at 100 million excess deaths due to climate change by 2030, and that's just the beginning: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/25/climate-inaction-idINDEE88O0HH20120925

Since climate change, even under the best-case scenarios, will keep getting worse for the rest of the 21st century (if not far longer), how many deaths will we hit by 2040? By 2050? By 2075?

The good thing about wars is that they end in relatively quick terms. No nation can sustain a massive war effort for decades without themselves collapsing in the process. Even the Cold War only lasted for less than 50 years.

With climate change, the damage we've done is ongoing and increasingly self-reinforcing, and will be measured in MILLENNIA. Depending on how these positive feedback loops play out, and how high the temps finally climb, the eventual damage to the planet could be worse than the global nuclear war we all worried about during the Cold War.