COP 26, Global Warming Cascade Systemic Risks
"Systemic risks
materialize as a chain, or cascade, impacting a whole system, inclusive
of people, infrastructure, economy, societal systems and ecosystems.
70
experts analyzed cascading risks, as follows: “The cascading risks over
which the participating experts expressed greatest concern were the
interconnections between
shifting weather patterns, resulting in
changes to ecosystems, and
the rise of pests and diseases, which, combined with
heatwaves and drought, will likely drive unprecedented
crop failure,
food insecurity and
migration of people.
Subsequently, these impacts will likely result in
increased infectious diseases
(greater prevalence of current infectious diseases, as well as novel variants), and a
negative feedback loop compounding and amplifying each of these impacts.” (Pg. 38)
Cascades will likely lead to breakdown of governance due to limited food supplies and lack of income bringing on increasingly violent extremists groups, paramilitary intervention, organized violence, and conflict between people and states, all of which has already commenced.
September 17, 2021
What’s Up With COP26?,
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/17/whats-up-with-cop26/
