Bruce Hamilton: Self - Sierra Club, Deputy Executive Director
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Himself (Sierra Club) : The world's climate scientists tell us that the highest safe level of emissions would be around 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. We are already at 400. They tell us that the sort of savest we could hope to do without having perilous implications - as far as drought, famine, human conflict major, species extinction - would be about 2°C increase in temperature. We're rapidly approaching that, and with all the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere we're easily going exceed that. So, on our watch, we are facing the next major extinction on the Earth, like we haven't seen since the time of the dinosaurs disappearing. You know, when whole countries go under water because of sea-level rise, when whole countries find that there's so much drought that they can no longer feed their population, and as a result they desperately migrate to another country, or invade another country, I mean we're going to have climate-wars.
