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This is a digital projection but major coastal cities will be vulnerable to major floods if climate change continues apace and unchecked, says Bill McKibben. courtesy neatorama.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Right now, World War III rages across the globe. And while the US President whistles through the battlefield like a world-class fool, even all those nations who agreed to the Paris Accord aren’t doing enough. That’s the dire warning of Bill McKibben’s deeply knowledgeable and far-reaching jeremiad from 2016 which grows more urgent and relevant each passing week, literally.<\/p>\n

“Enemy forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each passing week, another 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice\u00a0disappears<\/a>. ” he writes. “Experts dispatched to the battlefield in July saw little cause for hope, especially since this siege is one of the oldest fronts in the war. ‘In 30 years, the area has shrunk approximately by half,\u201d said a scientist who examined the onslaught. \u201cThere doesn\u2019t seem anything able to stop this.’\u201d<\/p>\n

McKibben notes that the gargantuan enemy isn’t angry at us, or otherwise emotionally or psychologically motivated, which can lead to mistakes, like Hitler’s many in WWII, or would likely happen to Kim Jong Un, if the North Korean dictator tries to use a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

Rather, McKibbon notes, the enemy is indifferent, just as Nature was in Moby-Dick, <\/em>our greatest American parable, among other things.<\/em>\u00a0Except Nature is now on a tsunami roll, far more destructive than it ever was in the mid-1800s, when Melville published his book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The natural environment of Arctic wildlife disappears at a catastrophic rate week after week. The implications for the earth and civilization are staggering. Courtesy Huffington Post.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Worse,\u00a0North America’s\u00a0<\/span>corporate and governmental technological efforts are going in the wrong direction, as the massive oil spill of the new Keystone pipeline in North Dakota recently showed. One the eve of the decision to grant final approval to build the pipeline, it’s almost as if Nature \u2013 in the form of 210,000 gallons of gushing crude oil \u2013 sent a very pointed, and sprawling, message. Here’s a New York Times<\/em> report on the spill:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/17\/us\/keystone-pipeline-transcanada-leak.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n