This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Our book today in the Tom Hartman Book Club is Climate Restoration,

the only future that will sustain the human race

by Peter Feikowski with Carol Douglas. And this is from Chapter 1

titled What Is Climate Restoration? It's New Year's Day, 2050. The goal set by the 2015 Paris Accords on climate change have been

achieved. In just 35 years, net greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced from their

peak at 2019 to zero. People celebrate

with fireworks and parties across the globe. After 200 years of living with the

environmental impacts of the Industrial Revolution,

including 60 years of dire warnings

about the threat from excessive CO2,

the trend toward global warming has stabilized.

The human population has also stabilized, asographers predicted at around 9 billion, 15% higher than 2020.

Yet the readings from the Observatory at Maniloa tell scientists that the global level of atmospheric CO2 is now

460-PPM. A T-Rex would love this level, but it's 50% higher than the highest

humans have lived with throughout our evolution and history.

It's 67% higher than 280 PM, the pre-industrial average at which agriculture and early civilizations of humankind

were able to develop and flourish.

The great coral reefs are gone as high water temperatures and acidity persist, the oceans are largely devoid of their

once vast fish populations.

Gawn too are most of the old growth forests and rainforests that once occupied

large stretches of the planet's surface.

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