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Dear World!

I miss you.. It's been so long, I can hardly remember what you were like..

We sit here, in our shelters, trying to make ends meet; it's year seven since the collapse, and I'm tired of eating worms and insects.. - Blimey, what I wouldn't do for a Whopper with fries..

The sky above us is a permanent grey, even here in july in Africa.. It's hell, and cold..

I remember, back in Denmark, before it all started, that things were so blissful, so quiet.. Our biggest problem was a few coloured immigrants, and taxes.. We were so blissful..

In my youth, I'd read, you know that, Dear Diary; politics was everything to me. - I remember when the first signs started showing.. The hot summers, the cries from thousands of scientists, all saying; something's up, something dreadful, something definite..

We couldn't believe it.. We weren't BUILD to believe it; there was no instinct in us, able to warn us from the hell we were imposing on our selves.

Everything was against us..

Then in the mid 2010's, Trump got elected.. I remember, cause I knew, that if we didn't do something there and then, we'd end up in this.. Nightmare, that is our lives today..

Noone believed it.. The fewest understood it, and people were kept at bay by the media, owned by the people puppeteering people like Trump..

As time progressed, into the 2020's, things started getting really bad.. Nature reacted so hard on us.. Storms, schorching heat.. But still, noone really cared; we had Burgers, you know..

When it came, in the mid 2020' s, the junction, people hardy even talked about it; it was quieted down.. - "So.. Methane.. What's it do..?".. - We called ourselves; enlightened, wise, educated.. Yet, when it happened, people hardly knew what it was, even though we had had years to research and understand it..

Methane.. 400 gigatons of it, all frozen into the soils. at least back then..

People all knew about global warming, but.. Everyone was taken aback..

Methane.. 30 times more potent as greenhouse gas, compared to Carbon dioxide, and 100% lethal to plants..

We live of insects.. Insects, grown from the corpses of our neighbors, while we sit in the freezing wastelands of what was..

Curse you, world, Curse you, money..

We live in a graveyard..

If only the Gulf stream would have stopped, PRIOR to the methane being released, then.. Maybe, we'd have had a chance.. But this..? The dead world, frozen, with not a plant in sight for the next 10 years..?

If only they'd known, and cared..

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To explain the above:

The reason for this text is to explain what is threatening us, and what our future might look like.

Fact one: There are 400 Gigatons of methane, currently frozen in the soils of the northern, perma-frozen hemispheres.

Fact two: Methane has a greenhouse-effect capability 30 times more potent than Carbon Dioxide.

Fact three: This Methane is, 100% lethal to plants. To all plants.

Fact four: This methane is being emitted into the atmospeare from thawing soils, as we speak, as a direct consequence of global warming and the greenhouse gasses we emit.

Fact five: The Methane has a longevity of about 20-30 years in our atmosphere before it vaporises.

Fact six: Methane is a heavy gas, which will cling to, and fill, the atmosphere near the surface of our planet, once released.

Fact seven: Once we cross a certain threshold, which will come soon, Earth will heat up to a point (because of Carbon Dioxide emissions), where the methane will be released and become so abundant in the atmosphere, that it will be a greenhouse effect on it's own accord, leading to more methane being released, and so on and so forth, until, ultimately, a "spiral of doom" is reached. There will be so much of the gas in the air, that it will be self-amplifying, leading to even more methane released, until - like it happened 220 million years ago, during the mesozonian age - that global temperatures rises well beyond 20 degrees Celsius, and methane covers the whole of our planet (we will be able to breathe through it, but plants will won't).

Fact eight: When it happened last time - during the mesozonian age - 99.5% of all life in the oceans died, EVERY plant died, only species smaller than your average cat survived on the surface and it took 20-30 years for the first seeds to start blooming again.

Fact nine: This scenario is close, unless we do something and cut emissions, now.

Fact ten: There is one way out of this scenario.

One effect of global warming is, that the ice in the north and south is melting (see the provided image). This is not just a matter of water on low laying areas and countries, but one of temperature in the oceans. The Gulf stream, which provides the whole of the Western World in Northern America, Canada and Europe with it's temperate climate, is deeply depending on a certain balance in temperatures of the Atlantic; once it's temperature is changed, the "engine" of the Gulf stream - the "pump", that makes sure the warm water is brought in from the south, cooled in the north and flowing back to the south - is challenged, if not stopped.

Fact eleven: IF the Gulf stream seizes, we will "only" be challenged with a global ice age, leaving most of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable.

That's the good scenario.

If it doesn't happen, and if the methane is released PRIOR to the Gulf stream collapsing, we will have a world as described from fact eight and above.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT.

We have to work together. We have to get SANE leadership, KNOWING, that the ONLY way for us, as cultures and species, to survive our own self-created situation and nightmare, is to WORK TOGETHER, TO SACRIFICE and to STOP Emissions, NOW.

We can't afford Trump, and we can't afford to wait; it is THIS close, and most of us will die, and/or suffer immensely, if we don't stand together against our own abuse of the planet.

We gotta work together, and we gotta unite and we gotta revolt against the idiots in charge; there are no other alternatives.

/Simon

PS. The picture illustrates the amount of ice on the North Pole from 1978-2015. The red line, the lower one, illustrates the season from 2015-2016. It is here.