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The document outlines a grim future scenario due to unchecked climate change, projecting severe heat waves, droughts, and flooding by 2050 and beyond, resulting in widespread displacement and food scarcity. Despite some progress in emission reductions, it emphasizes that current efforts are insufficient to prevent catastrophic warming. The document calls for bold solutions and collective action to mitigate the worst effects of climate change and preserve the planet's future.

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The document outlines a grim future scenario due to unchecked climate change, projecting severe heat waves, droughts, and flooding by 2050 and beyond, resulting in widespread displacement and food scarcity. Despite some progress in emission reductions, it emphasizes that current efforts are insufficient to prevent catastrophic warming. The document calls for bold solutions and collective action to mitigate the worst effects of climate change and preserve the planet's future.

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Total recording length: 00:04:59

{ 0:07 }
While we're already feeling the devastating effects of human caused climate change, governments continue to
fall short on making and executing emissions pledges that would help thwart further warming. So what will our
world look like in the next 30 to 80 years if we continue on the current path? While it's impossible to know
exactly how the next decade will unfold, scientists and climate experts have made projections factoring in the
current state of affairs. This future we're about to describe is bleak, but remember, there's still time to ensure it
doesn't become our reality. It's 2050. We've blown past the 1.5° target that world leaders promised to stick to.
The Earth has warmed 2° since the 1800s, when the world first started burning fossil fuels in mass. Scale reports
on heat waves and wildfires regularly fill the Evening News.

{ 0:57 }
Summer days exceed 40° in London and 45° in Delhi, as extreme heat waves are now 8 to 9 times more
common. These high temperatures prompt widespread blackouts as power grids struggle to keep up with the
energy demands needed to properly cool homes. Ambulance sirens blare through the night carrying patients
suffering from heat stroke, dehydration and exhaustion. The southwestern United States, southern Africa and
eastern Australia experience longer, more frequent and more severe droughts. Meanwhile, the Philippines,
Indonesia and Japan face more frequent heavy rainfall as rising temperatures cause water to evaporate faster and
trap more water in the atmosphere. As the weather becomes more erratic, some communities are unable to keep
pace with rebuilding what's constantly destroyed. Many move to cities where they face housing shortages and a
lack of jobs. A resource squeeze is felt in newborn intensive care wards as the rising temperature and air
pollution cause higher rates of premature and underweight births.

{ 1:57 }
More children develop asthma and respiratory disease, and rates balloon in communities regularly exposed to
forest fire smoke. The global emissions added to the atmosphere each year finally start to level off thanks to
government action. But it's decades too late. We fail to reach net zero in time. As a result, by 2100, the Earth has
warmed another .5 to 1.5°. Over half of our remaining glaciers have melted. As the sea heats up, its volume
increases due to thermal expansion. Together, this elevates sea level by well over a meter. Entire nations like the
Marshall Islands and Tuvalu are uninhabitable as large swaths of their islands are submerged. Some islands, like
the Maldives, spend billions building interconnected rafts that house apartments, schools and restaurants that
float above its drowned cities. Resettled climate migrants in Jakarta, Mumbai and Lagos are forced to abandon
their homes once again as rising tides and extreme storms flood buildings and crumble infrastructure.

{ 2:56 }
Overall, 250 million people are displaced. Some affluent cities like New York and Shanghai attempt to adapt,
elevating buildings and roadways. 10m tall sea walls line the city's coasts. Children learn about extinct sea life
which once inhabited the Ocean's reefs, all of which have vanished thanks to rising surface water temperatures.
Grocery prices skyrocket as food and water scarcity touch all communities. Fruits and products long grown in
the tropics and subtropics rarely show up on shelves as intense heat waves paired with increasing humidity
make it deadly for farmers to work outdoors. Unpredictable heat waves, droughts and floods cripple small scale
farmers in Africa, Asia and South America who previously produced 1/3 of the world's food. Hundreds of
millions of people are pushed into hunger and famine. Climate predictions can feel overwhelming and terrifying,
yet many of the experts responsible for these assessments remain optimistic.

{ 3:55 }
Since countries have first begun taking steps to lower their emissions, warming projections have shifted
downwards. In less than a decade, we've reduced our projected emission rates so that we're no longer on track to
hit nearly 4° of warming. Policies that invest in renewable energy sources, cut fossil fuel production, support
electric transportation, protect our forests, and regulate industry can help mitigate the worst effects of climate
change. But climate experts have also stressed that current policies and pledges don't go far enough in speed or
scale. Enacting real change will require bold solutions, innovations, and collective action. There's still time to
rewrite our future, and every 10th of a degree counts. For a look at a time when the global community banded
together to achieve one goal, watch this video about what happened to that hole in the ozone layer. Or visit
Edtedcom Earthschool for a list of impactful steps you and your community can take to preserve our planet.

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