In 25 years the Arctic ocean will gain 3 to 5 degrees, in 50 years up to 9 degrees, and slowly start a never-ending melting process endangering hundreds of species and destroying the habitat of local cultures. And once more a very few seem to care.

A scientific report had already revealed this hopeless truth in 2017, and it has been recently confirmed by the UN. But still, geopolitical leaders stay trenched behind their climate skeptic views. Even though a million-year process is happening on a human life scale.

It has now been confirmed: Even if the Paris accords were drastically followed (which we all know they will not) nothing can be done to stop the self-destruction process we have engaged in less than a century. Even reducing the chemical waste thrown in every ocean cost of the world with very few regulations.

In 2050, 45% of the Arctic ice terrain will be liquified or partially melted, and 70% of human infrastructures will be considered unhabitable, affecting the lives of 4 million people.

Let us not forget that in 150 years the ocean level has raised by 22 cm, and is now 30% more acid.

And this affects the very fragile natural balance of our world. We are know all standing on very fine ice.

“What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. We have the science; now more urgent climate action is needed to steer away from tipping points that could be even worse for our planet than we first thought.” Joyce Msuya, UN Environment’s Acting Executive Director.

The scientific community warning us for years is now begging us not to stop the process but slow it down. Nobody uses the sentence “there is still time to change” anymore. The message is now: “It’s too late, we have to change.”

This is the kind of news feed you read at the beginning of an Apocalyptic movie. But this time the victims are not figurants, and the chaos it announces is no painted cardboard or CGI.

The only hope left, is that the greater number deems this to be a matter of concern. A global change is not engaged by countries but general goodwill to change your everyday personal “deadly” habits. And this is old news.

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