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The article below has been read more than 2.5 million times over the past 13 years. This page and its essential subpage links will also demonstrate that we have never given up hope for humanity's survival and for ending accelerating fossil-fuel-driven climate change.

We remain hopeful that, together, we can address and overcome the climate crisis and the 12 other major crises humanity now faces.

 

The seven most important facts on this page:

1. 1. Job One rejects despair and promotes realistic, practical hope.
      They commit to sharing the uncensored, often brutal climate science while also providing grounded, actionable hope—never false comfort.

   2. Climate change is the central “hub” crisis that amplifies at least 12 other global crises.
      Accelerating global heating is described as the greatest disruptor and threat amplifier of the 21st century, driving or worsening biodiversity loss, migration, conflict, economic and political instability, pandemics, resource depletion, and more.

   3. We are already in an accelerating global heating emergency that risks a Great Global Die-Off and Collapse—but not total extinction!
      Because humanity wasted ~60 years of warnings, a large-scale die-off and collapse are now likely. However, Job One argues that total human extinction is highly improbable and that a significant portion of humanity can still survive.

   4. If we act, there are powerful benefits—including a possible Great Global Rebirth.
      The page lists 30+ direct and indirect benefits of addressing climate change and overshoot seriously (e.g., cleaner air and water, sustainable prosperity for all, improved global governance, reduced inequality) and outlines a potential Great Global Rebirth after the crisis.

   5. Rapid, deep fossil fuel reduction (2025-26 targets) and preparation and adaptation remain crucial and time-sensitive.
      Even if we cannot avoid major damage, the closer we get to the required fossil fuel reductions, the fewer people will die, the less suffering future generations will endure, and the more time we’ll have to prepare, adapt, migrate, and build resilience.

   6. The collapse itself could create space for new, more just, and sustainable systems.
      The anticipated Great Global Die-Off and Collapse is also seen as an evolutionary clearing process that can dismantle today’s entrenched, non-adaptive power systems—opening room to build more sustainable, equitable economic, political, and social structures.

   7. Job One offers both a concrete action plan and emotional/spiritual support to help people cope and act.
      Through the Job One Plan (Plan B), ClimateSafe Villages, the Universe One Project, and various emotional and legal support resources, the site aims to help people process climate grief and anger, maintain hope, get financial restitution for climate change damages, and take meaningful action so that at least half of humanity can survive and help build the Great Global Rebirth.

 

Prologue

Humanity’s greatest challenge today may not be the many global crises we face, but the quiet erosion of future hope in younger generations and across other age groups.

But, at Job One, we do not subscribe to that loss of hope!

Yes, humanity is navigating what many call the global metacrisis or a polycrisis of more than a dozen serious global problems. And yes, among these urgent global challenges is the accelerating climate change emergency. Although climate change unfolds more slowly than other global crises, it may be the most profound of all — because it acts as the central hub, amplifying and multiplying the risks of nearly every other global challenge.

When so much of the news is filled with warnings and coming hardships, it is understandable that many thoughtful people struggle to maintain hope for humanity’s future. Yet maintaining a realistic, practical hope is essential to building a better future.

Without it, progress stalls. With it, whole worlds of possibility open.

Some people, overwhelmed by pessimism, have already given up. Certain billionaires, for instance, envision escaping Earth by building spaceships to colonize distant planets or by storing their consciousness inside supercomputers in a quest for digital immortality. For those who already have everything money can buy, chasing eternal life in space has become the final prize.

Others place their hope in religious prophecy, believing an End of Days, a destructive rapture, or apocalypse will arrive, and unbelievably, they welcome it as the moment they are carried to heaven. In another way, they, too, have turned away from believing in humanity's future.

At Job One for Humanity, we choose a different path. We focus on the present and on what can be done here and now on Earth to honestly face and solve the challenges before us. We believe good science, the lessons of the last 10,000 years, and the Earth's long-term evolutionary history do not support the fatalism or despair described above.

At the same time, we know that genuine hope must be practical, grounded, and honestly based on often painful facts. True hope does not deny reality.

That is why we promise to always treat you with respect and dignity, as an adult. We will always share the brutal and uncensored scientific facts about climate change and its implications for our shared future. But alongside those facts, we will always present a realistic, practical hope—and specific ways for you, your family, and your business to make it real.

To provide that hope, we will:

a. Share tools to help you maintain hope and cope with anxiety,

b. Offer guidance on how to prepare, adapt, build resilience, and, if needed, migrate so that you can manage and overcome the numerous global challenges ahead. (Migration is now referred to by politicians as sanitized Managed Retreat, so they do not have to call the public's attention to the ravages of accelerating climate change.)

c. Offer effective solutions that can be used by governments and individuals to lessen the consequences of climate change.

That is the kind of honest hope you will find throughout our website: not false comfort, but practical strategies that can make a measurable difference.

Those who embrace this reality-based hope, face the climate future honestly, and prepare for it wisely will:

a. be safer,
b. more comfortable,
c. live and thrive far longer than those who deny the facts and fail to prepare, and they will
d. sustain the motivation to keep building a better world for themselves and others.

Beyond these first hope-building and hope-maintaining steps, you will also find deeper tools, ideas, and communities at Job One that can help restore your hope in the future. Building, sharing, and nurturing realistic hope may be the single most crucial factor in humanity’s survival through this century of global challenges.

Even when the facts about climate change seem discouraging, never forget this: our organization exists because we hold a deep, reality-based hope for humanity’s future. Hope grounded in truth, not illusion, is the kind that endures and transforms. Only by seeing reality clearly—without denial or avoidance—can we act effectively to change it.

To understand how an honest and practical hope can coexist with difficult truths, consider the following.

For more than six decades, humanity has known the dangers of climate change. Yet political inaction, systemic denial, and well-funded disinformation campaigns—particularly from the global fossil fuel industry—have delayed meaningful progress. This long delay has placed us squarely in the path of serious, unavoidable consequences that will unfold over the coming decades.

Acknowledging this truth is not an act of despair; it is an act of courage and preparation. Only when we recognize the full scope of what is coming can we prepare, adapt, build resilience, and—when necessary—migrate wisely and humanely. To ignore these realities would be to surrender our future; to face them honestly is to begin shaping it.

Unfortunately, many climate change educators and communicators today, often with good intentions, present overly optimistic, unrealistic, or progress that is simply too little too late as versions of climate hope. They emphasize future technologies or distant solutions that are too little, too late, and cannot be scaled or realistically implemented in time to prevent the accelerating consequences of near- and long-term climate change. While well-meaning, this approach risks delaying the urgent action that is still possible—and necessary.

At Job One for Humanity, we move on a different path. We believe that mature, caring adults can handle difficult information and will rise to the challenge once they understand what is truly at stake. We respect you enough to share the whole picture—both the uncomfortable realities and the real possibilities for change.

When we honestly look at the challenges before us, we also discover the strength, creativity, and cooperation that have always defined humanity at its best. And from that honesty comes the most powerful kind of hope: a hope built on truth, courage, and action.

You might be asking yourself Why does Job One take on this challenging, uncensored climate change work? Our website and individual computers are subject to near-continuous hacking aimed at preventing our analysis of climate change threats and consequences from being seen. Our research and analysis team does it "to protect the cycle of life for future generations." Accelerating climate change truly threatens the survival of not only the current generations but also future ones.

At Job One For Humanity, we will focus our efforts on what we can effectively influence and control. Unfortunately, because of 60 years of global fossil fuel cartel disinformation and the cartel's immoral financial influence over our politicians, we can no longer control many of the worst consequences of accelerating climate change. This means we must be practical and focused on what we can influence and change, which at this point is mainly emergency preparation for climate change consequences, as well as adaptation and resilience-building strategies, and, in some cases, even migration.

This is hard to hear, but many of the climate change consequences are now beyond our collective control, and we will live with them for centuries, if not thousands of years. Our best advice is to not focus or worry about what you currently cannot successfully influence or control regarding the climate change emergency and it's unavoidable consequences. Focus your attention on what is within your influence and control: emergency preparation, adaptation, resilience-building, where applicable, migration, and the hope that we will learn from this nightmare and eventually create a much better world and a great global rebirth.

When you finish reading this article, we invite you to explore more of our hope-building and hope-maintaining resources below:

a. Empowering, Hope-Filled Climate Change Evolutionary Benefits & Perspectives.

b. ClimateSafe Villages, a new nonprofit we helped cofound to provide practical support and community for climate readiness.

c. The Universe One Project, a unique Job One initiative designed to guide survival, resilience, and thriving as we face accelerating climate change and the twelve other major crises confronting humanity.

 

Introduction

There Are Many Positive Possibilities and Recovery Opportunities

To successfully address climate change and our climate change emergency, we will be asked (or eventually required) to make significant sacrifices, changes, and reductions in fossil fuel use to save ourselves, our children, and future generations. It is, therefore, crucial to understand the numerous benefits and to realistically hope that we can reap them when we ultimately make these life changes and sacrifices. 

The two sections on this page outline several dozen direct and indirect benefits we will reap by confronting the facts of climate change, implementing honest and necessary climate-reduction strategies, and preparing for and adapting to its unavoidable consequences.

Those two sections are:

a. the 30 climate change benefits of fixing climate change, and

b. the many positive recovery possibilities and benefits of the post-climate change emergency (what we call a possible Great Global Rebirth). 

After reading this page, you will decide whether, by wisely "playing" and adapting to the many global heating "cards" and climate consequences we have already been dealt, we can still make the best of a very difficult situation. Furthermore, you also get to decide if our accelerating global warming could be turned into a huge opportunity for a positive economic, social, and political global evolution that could not have arisen any other way.

Due to our 60 years of ineffective governmental action on climate change, we are now in an accelerating global warming emergency. If left unresolved, accelerating global warming will trigger a globally widespread, transitional, and temporary Great Die-Off, which we refer to as the Great Global Collapse process. This transitional and temporary die-off and collapse will be triggered by accelerating climate consequences, tipping points, and feedbacks. These consequences will also interact with and worsen our other 12 pre-existing global crises.

The good news is that by preventing the Great Die-Off of much of humanity and limiting the Great Global Collapse from fully unfolding, climate emergency survivors could eventually experience benefits equal to (or even greater than) those of the long term in what we call the Great Global Rebirth. Moreover, these long-term benefits of the Great Global Rebirth could eventually extend well beyond the climate-related global suffering, financial losses, and massive die-offs described on this Great Global Collapse description page. 

These many potential benefits are vital to your survival because they:

a. can help you create a more balanced and healthier perspective regarding any sad, angry, anxious, apathetic, or other negative feelings you may already have about the current climate change emergency. 

b. contain all of the good things that can happen as we work together toward achieving our new future and, eventually, the Great Global Rebirth after eliminating the threats and consequences of the climate change emergency currently looming over our heads. 

We have bolded the benefits below so you can review them quickly. This page was also designed to provide much-needed emotional support to millions worldwide who feel climate-related emotions, including grief, worry, sadness, anger, anxiety, fear, depression, defeat, doom, resignation, or even climate apathy, in response to our current global heating emergency.

At the end of this document is a comprehensive, effective plan for realizing most of the benefits listed on this page.

There are many positive benefits that we will experience in fixing and recovering from the climate change emergency 

 

 

As you will see from the 30 benefits listed below, we can lay the groundwork for a Great Global Rebirth. By working together to mitigate the global heating threat, we can allow more of humanity to survive and thrive. Here is the list of achievable positive benefits if we can get climate change better managed and slowed down:

Benefit 1 - Having the beautiful world and the livable future we get if we make the right and required global fossil fuel reduction choices.

The best news is that we still have some time left to address global warming before it becomes beyond our control. However, when we are successful, it will significantly improve our lives.

Imagine a world:

1. With clean, fresh air that did not kill us or make our children ill. 

2. With a new type of globalized sustainable prosperity for ALL. This sustainable prosperity for ALL encompasses sustainable livelihoods and lifestyles, as described in full on these pages. 

3. Where dramatic increases in cooperation and collaboration replace over-consumerism, distorted greed capitalism, and conflict-generating toxic over-competition.

4. Where the population lives in balance with the Earth's existing carrying capacity and does not overshoot resource availability. We are approaching 8 billion people, and our leading scientists estimate that the Earth can sustainably support only about 1.5 billion.

6. Where former fossil fuel workers transform our transportation system. Imagine them building fast, green bullet trains and expanding universal access to self-driving electric vehicles, eliminating the need for most private transportation and parking lots. 

6. With existing parking lots and the roofs of our many buildings becoming organic gardens, parks, or solar panel farms. 

7. With our cities transformed into safe and healthy places and healthy forests, soils, waterways, and oceans, we can help clean our air and water and feed ourselves sustainably.

 

 

Imagine that we soon make the right choices and take the right actions to meet the required global fossil fuel reduction targets, and in doing so, we achieve all of the above while also becoming good stewards of the world and our futures.

 

 

And finally, imagine that by creating a sustainable prosperity for ALL, we have preserved the hope for both ourselves and future generations that life will go on and that the quality of our lives will be stable and improve. By acting responsibly now, we can ensure that future generations have the opportunity to survive, thrive, and enjoy sustainable prosperity.

To see this super-benefit in another critical light, consider that resolving the global heating emergency will significantly mitigate the painful path of continually escalating economic, political, and social chaos. This chaos is largely unavoidable due to our government's 60 years of ignoring valid warnings about global heating. When we fix global heating, we will not have to watch humanity's final members pass away with much of the Earth's other biological life. (For more on the step-by-step process of a climate change-driven collapse and possible mass extinction, see this critical page.)

 

Benefit 2 - By addressing the climate crisis and the global heating emergency using principles of climate justice for all, we also significantly improve or resolve many of the world's other most pressing global challenges.

When we work together to resolve the single greatest disruptor, threat multiplier, and threat amplifier of the 21st century (climate change and global heating), we will simultaneously reduce many of the other negative consequences of the world's other critical systemic challenges. Below, please find a brief list of other critical global systemic challenges that will improve significantly as we complete the necessary government-driven actions to address global heating.

We will lessen:

The loss of animal and plant biodiversity (This is because of the global temperature rise and other global warming pollutants.)

The escalating hazardous pollution of our air (with carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gases)

The escalating pollution of our lands (with acid rain and other fossil fuel pollutants)

The escalating pollution of our seas and waters (caused by overheating and carbon fallout, which make our waters more acidic and more difficult for many marine animals to survive).

The current general environmental degradation (Fixing the global warming emergency will eventually force us all to live more sustainable and less polluting lives and livelihoods.)

Rising mass migrations (growing global heating-driven mass migrations of desperate climagees (climate refugees) due to crop failures and low yields harm climagees, nations, and multiple environments and animal populations.)

Escalating conflicts, war, and terrorism (with rising mass migrations and resource depletion because global warming is destroying crops, water, and so many other human and animal resources, there will be more conflicts.)

Increasing global economic instability (all of the above, and accelerating global heating consequences) will cause far more global economic instability.)

Increasing political instability and collapsing governments (resulting from the earlier issues).

Economic inequality, social and racial injustice, hunger, and poverty (This is because when we prevent failing governments due to the consequences of accelerating global heating, the resolution of economic inequality, social and racial injustice, hunger, and poverty programs, along with other safety net programs, can be better maintained.) 

Resource depletion to resolve global warming, we will be forced to live far more sustainable lives and livelihoods, and we will therefore use fewer resources. This new approach to sustainability will lead to a wise and reduced use of both non-renewable and renewable resources. 

New COVID-19-like pandemics and other epidemics, new or old, will likely occur every decade or even more frequently. (This is because of the stresses put on the world's health systems by global heating and all of the previous issues.)

Our current failure to evolve effective global governance, crucial for addressing the global emergency of global heating, will require us to develop more effective global governance, particularly in the area of our common climate management. (Maybe we will not achieve full global governance. But as the climate worsens, we might at least achieve partial global governance. This is where all nations would allow new laws, enforcement, and punishment by all other nations within their territory for all issues relating to fixing the global heating emergency.)

To live the sustainable lives and livelihoods necessary to control global warming, we must realize that our current population of about 8 billion far exceeds the Earth's carrying capacity (about 1 1/2 to 2 billion people). At that point of collective insight, we will implement global incentives and policies to return Earth to a sustainable population level without Overshoot. On the other hand, suppose we fail to self-regulate human reproduction and the accelerating global warming emergency. In that case, eventually Mother Nature will save part of humanity and reduce the population for us through global collapse. (To see what an overpopulation, global warming-driven global collapse process would look like, click here.)

To see how Mother Nature, as a last resort, will save some of us from the worst consequences of our currently irreversible global warming and climate change, click here. 

As we resolve global warming, we will also make most of the world's other critical challenges (above) far, far easier to resolve! Additionally, most of our best social, economic, and political values, goals, and human rights will become far easier and more likely to achieve once we resolve the greatest disruptor, threat multiplier, and threat amplifier of the 21st century (our global heating emergency).

The values, goals, and human rights we can build on and continue to advance (without the global heating emergency hanging over our heads) are illustrated in the Sustainable Development illustration below.

 

 

Given the future severity of the consequences of global heating and the probability of widespread global collapse, in the great rebithty we can build a new world of far greater peace, climate justice, and security by ultimately addressing this emergency and adapting. Said slightly differently, here are just a few of the evolutionary changes in values, goals, and processes that will be far easier to improve or create once the global heating emergency (which will continue to demand more and more resources if left unchecked) is finally under control.

We will be better able to:

a. End racial and educational injustice, 

b. Create universal healthcare, 

c. End wealth and income equity and the excesses of extreme wealth and poverty,

d. Create housing and employment equity,

e. Reduce our destructive consume/pollute/waste consumerism, 

f. End critical resource depletion and overshoot, and create resource rebalancing, 

g. Allow for the return and strengthening of biodiversity because of reduced pollution and encroachment into natural habitats, 

h. Create the next evolutionary and new economic fair exchange system beyond our current corporate over-consumption, greed-based, extractive-based capitalism. This new economic system will not rely upon the false fundamental principle of unlimited growth within the closed and limited Earth system. And,

I. Create effective global governance based on the collective well-being of all planetary citizens, rather than our current corporatocracy, which benefits the wealthy few. (To begin to repair corporatocracy, we would need to remove all personhood rights from corporations, hold them strictly responsible for the triple bottom line principles, and make them pay for all pollution and harm they have caused by exporting their waste and pollution upon and into the public commons.) 

All of the previous items will help build a sustainable prosperity and a just and equitable future for ALL of humanity, including all of the biological life that sustains us. All of the above can help create a global civil society where individual human rights and responsibilities are appropriately balanced with those of the community and government. 

Before reading on, please take a moment to visualize how much better your life and our world will be when the beautiful values and goals listed above are realized. 

If we do not get the global heating emergency resolved, and the climate continues to destabilize at the current rate, there will be no practical way to fix humanity's other major global challenges or to make continued progress on, sustain, or ever realize most of the above Sustainable Prosperity and Development values, goals, and human rights. (To see a detailed and expanded description of each of humanity's other critical global challenges to better understand how important it is for us to manage our global warming emergency, click here.) 

A warning and a tough reality check about the challenge of meaningful change in our current climate change world situation

Our existing human social systems (the economic systems, political systems, how we treat and think about the environment, and our religious systems) have been so co-opted and corrupted so thoroughly by multiple sources (wealthy corporations, billionaires, the world's fossil fuel cartel doing $30 trillion a year in annual business, authoritarian leaders, authoritarian structures and belief systems, etc., that they are no longer rational enough or suitable when it comes to those systems truly serving the short or long-term well-being of the majority of the world's people and our planetary supportive eco-systems.

Humanity is at a crossroads of environmental and resource overshoot. Humanity will become nearly extinct if it does not make simultaneous, major, whole-system improvements immediately.

Humanity can finally create an equitable, just, and environmentally sustainable future, but only through the many processes of simultaneous whole-system improvement. This entire system improvement will be nearly impossible to achieve with the existing power structures, which are highly resistant to change or correction.

It is likely that only through the processes of widespread collapse will there be the necessary, unobstructed pathway to create the whole-system improvement that all of humanity needs to survive.

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Benefit 3 - Driven by the need to survive, we create hundreds of millions of new, well-paid jobs in green energy generation and transition. 

Benefit 4 - We are intelligent and adaptive beings who can resolve or adapt to almost anything. As we fully engage with ending the global heating emergency (using the Job One for Humanity Plan B), we will continue to advance the natural foundation for long-term Sustainable Prosperity for everyone.

 

Benefit 5 - We still have time to prepare, adapt, and build global warming emergency reserves and resilience into our local and international preparedness systems. Prudent individuals will have this done before 2025, when the consequences of climate change are expected to dramatically worsen.  Click here for how to do this.

 

Benefit 6 - There will be positive climate wildcards that will at least benefit some parts of the world. Some wildcards might also take the form of new technologies that could help us dramatically reduce fossil fuel usage and significantly increase green energy generation and consumption, thereby slowing global warming.

 

Benefit 7 - Despite the escalating threats before us, we can still fully enjoy our normal daily lives for quite a while longer (depending on our current location) as we work together to address the many challenges posed by the rapidly escalating global warming emergency.

 

Benefit 8 - Ongoing scientific research is now more effectively warning more individuals about the great global warming challenge and the emergency before us. More individuals and organizations will get prepared and be more likely to survive.

 

Benefit 9 - Our accelerating global warming will inevitably force us into new levels of local, national, and international climate cooperation.

 

Benefit 10  - Without a doubt, accelerating global warming is human history's single greatest collective adaptive challenge and evolutionary adventure. As the single greatest "exterior" global threat and disruptor humanity has ever faced, it will eventually and literally force us to transform and grow in global cooperation, evolutionary maturity, and as one human family.

Seen from this transformational perspective, our global warming emergency may also become the greatest opportunity in human history for intentional, well-reasoned social, economic, and political evolutionary growth. If humanity wants to survive this emergency, it will be forced to adopt far more sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods. 

 

Benefit 11 - As global warming accelerates, many colder areas will get warmer and will be able to grow warmer climate crops that they could not grow previously.

 

Benefit 12 - In resolving the global climate crisis, we will be compelled to pilot new and more effective models of global governance. In fact, we will need to develop an effective form of global governance with legislative, executive, and judicial powers, or we will not be able to address global warming in time.

 

Benefit 13 - We can trust 13.8 billion years of evolutionary progress, success, and momentum to help get us through this emergency and adaptive challenge. Click here for an amazing and beautiful explanation of precisely what this means.

 

Benefit 14 - We now face Herculean challenges and unavoidable chains of catastrophes from the global warming emergency and the world's 12 other critical systemic challenges. The global warming emergency will cause many individuals to re-examine their lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods. These chains of catastrophes will be powerful catalysts for change, which might not have occurred if we had not been so challenged. 

When deeply understood, these catastrophes will create life-changing and life-empowering moments of metanoia (in most of its wonderful meanings here) and catharsis. These catastrophes will help us, and even force us, to embrace new values and behaviors, and take the necessary paths to ensure a better future for all. 

 

Benefit 15 - There are unique spiritual, meaning, purpose, and character-building benefits for individuals and faith communities in addressing this global heating emergency and advancing the climate stabilization process, as well as a global ecological, economic, and political justice and equity rebalancing process. The fact that, with accelerating global warming, we are truly facing mass to near-total extinction within our lifetimes will likely serve as a catalyst, bringing many individuals closer to the Great Mystery and the origin of life. (Click here to discover why total human extinction is not realistic or probable, and the worst humanity will experience is near-total extinction (50 to 90+% of humanity going extinct.)

 

Benefit 16 - Resolving the global heating emergency while the world's other critical systemic challenges also worsen will be extremely difficult. This means that working through the challenges of this evolutionary adventure will be equally, if not more, rewarding, not only in creating a safer and healthier world, but also in increasing the overall meaning and purpose we bring to our lives.

 

Benefit 17 - We may not have to "polarize to mobilize" because we are all in the same boat regarding the global heating emergency and the other global challenges we now face. To be successful, we have to do this together.

 

Benefit 18  - it is your privilege, honor, and responsibility should you choose to accept it, to be a part of the forward-thinking team and movement to help prepare and adapt as well as to save and salvage whatever we can while we are also doing every we can to slow down the ongoing extinction of about half of humanity by mid-century, while at the same time, we work tirelessly toward preventing a near-total extinction event. It is hard to imagine a more meaningful, exciting, and wise way to protect yourself, your family, and future generations while living as comfortably as possible for whatever years you may have left.

 

Benefit 19 - If we start immediately and work together using an effective, prioritized plan like the one we created, called the Job One for Humanity Plan B, many of us will still survive and thrive, despite many of the now-inevitable consequences of global warming. To create the best possible outcomes for ourselves and those we love, we must still face this emergency squarely, prepare for it, and adapt to its challenges. (Click here for how to get started on the just-upgraded Job One Plan to protect you and your loved ones, and start making the best of our difficult global warming emergency!)

 

Benefit 20 - From the broadest possible evolutionary perspective, the global warming emergency and our other 12 systemic global challenges can be seen as just another period of evolutionary compression and regression. Despite our great technological advances, this social, economic, and political compression caused by many new stressful challenges, and what looks like a collective human maturity period of retrogression, is a natural, recurring part of our evolution, where evolution seeks to reach higher levels of unity and cooperation. (For More on this evolutionary compression and regression issue, click here for expanded positive perspectives on this natural evolutionary compression and regression factor and our current emergency and global challenges.) 

 

Benefit 21 - Those of us who survive and thrive through this emergency will likely do so partly by creating a Great Global Rebirth, new eco-communities, and more sustainable towns and cities. These new eco-communities, towns, and cities will be more in harmony with the natural world and become "beacons of light," living examples that demonstrate how some of us have learned to live sustainably and as one human family. Hopefully, these new eco-communities will have evolved and be overseen by a cooperative and facilitative global governance system working for the common benefit of ALL humankind, not just wealthy individuals, corporations, or narrow national interests. These actions could become important seeds and processes for a Great Global Rebirth.

 

Benefit 22 - Luckily, evolution will keep teaching through pain, loss, stress, and discomfort until we get "it." Modern society has become obsessed with convenience, comfort, consumption, and waste. The world is now moving in the wrong direction when viewed in terms of the global systemic challenges it now faces.

The unsustainable "consume/pollute/waste" mess we've created, along with the other 12 global challenges, will cause us unavoidable pain, loss, stress, and discomfort until we adapt and make the necessary sustainability changes. If we do not adapt, evolution will continue to increase the pain until we adapt or die off as a species. We will eventually adapt because "almost all people, businesses, and nations change when the pain going forward is less than the pain of staying where they are." The key here is to adapt before it is too late to avoid the worst climate outcomes!

 

Benefit 23 - The currently excessive power of global corporations must be balanced with collective well-being to create a more sustainable world for all. Corporations like the fossil fuel industry currently wield too much control over our politicians and over the interests of our collective well-being. We cannot solve the global heating emergency unless we start acting in the public's best interest and reduce the influence and lobbying power of mega-corporations over our governments. Addressing and fixing the global warming sub-step will also significantly contribute to resolving the world's other critical systemic global challenges.

 

Benefit 24 - Although it will take centuries or thousands of years, once we stop adding new carbon and methane pollution to our atmosphere each year, we can eventually establish a viable, new, and stable global average temperature. This climate will support the flourishing of humanity and all of biological nature in sustainable ways. 

 

Benefit 25 - While we cannot eliminate all the pain, suffering, and death resulting from the unavoidable consequences of global heating, we can work together to build stronger relationships at both micro and macro levels, effectively slowing and minimizing the damage. This will allow us to save and salvage as much as possible, enabling more of us to survive longer and better, so we can be there to build the Great Global Rebirth.

 

Benefit 26 - There still exists an appropriate, rational, and science-supported hope that a portion of humanity will make it through the climate change emergency. It is highly improbable that humanity will ever experience total extinction because of climate change and the global heating emergency. Click here to read the many powerful reasons that total human extinction is not a realistic future climate consequence and that, at the very worst, only near-total extinction is our possible fate.

 

Benefit 27: Please click here to read about the encouraging history of how as few as 200 mating pairs saved humanity from extinction in the past. It provides a broader understanding of the "Big Picture" evolutionary perspectives on how the post-collapse Great Global Rebirth is likely to occur. This is a Great, Global Rebirth must-read!

 

Benefit 28 - The accelerating global heating emergency is a genuine and pressing physical and emotional issue. You have every right to be sad or angry for a while. The global warming emergency is real. If we do not radically change our global fossil fuel burning practices to meet the challenging 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, we will face a heat-driven extinction of about half of humanity by mid-century. But there is good news and benefits even here.

This is because even though it may no longer be possible to avoid this mass extinction event because our government's have done so little over the last 60 years to fix global warming and we have crossed key climate tipping points and feedbacks, we still have time left to reduce global fossil fuel use to get as close to the 2025 targets to avoid mass extinction over the next 50-70 years (Getting very close to these 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets will take nothing less than the greatest government-directed mass mobilization of resources, personnel, and actions ever attempted in human history. 

 

Benefit 29: An honest and complete plan to resolve the global heating extinction emergency already exists. All you have to do is begin it. It offers practical actions that everyone can take and start immediately.

Every other plan we know of today for fixing climate change is either incomplete, off the critical path needed to meet survival-critical deadlines, highly politicized and rendered ineffective, or far too little, far too late. Click here to see the one plan that will work in time, the Job One for Humanity, Plan B.

 

Benefit 30: Be sure to read more details about one of the most powerful benefits of all, the possibilities of a Great Global Rebirth, further down this page.

 

Never forget that we can still create the world that we and future generations will love to live in. We can build a new world of far greater peace and security, and be co-creators of a great global rebirth. First, we must slow down and then resolve the global heating emergency.

 

 

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