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Still For the Apocalypse Humans must immediately implement a
series of radical measures to halt carbon emissions or prepare
for the collapse of entire ecosystems and the displacement,
suffering and death of hundreds of millions of the globe’s
inhabitants, according to a report commissioned by the World
Bank. The continued failure to respond aggressively to climate
change, the report warns, will mean that the planet will
inevitably warm by at least 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees
Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, ushering in an
apocalypse. The 84-page document,“Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C
Warmer World Must Be Avoided,” was written for the World Bank by
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate
Analytics and published last week. The picture it paints of a
world convulsed by rising temperatures is a mixture of mass
chaos, systems collapse and medical suffering like that of the
worst of the Black Plague, which in the 14th centu