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1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Except several experts have surmised that at 3ºC we will experience civilizational collapse. Stefan Rahmstorf, for example, said recently that “We simply wouldn’t reach three degrees because... we’d be in such deep trouble that basically the economy collapses.”