Unfortunately manmade climate change is a global issue and since there is no agreement or enforcement capability amongst the world’s countries, it is unlikely that we will be able to stop global warming before it’s worst effects are felt.

I am of the opinion that countries and states in the US will have to start to plan what they are going to do as temperatures continue to rise. I see a time in the US when there will be climate refugees fleeing north from Florida, California, coastal cities and the south. Where these people will go is questionable. There will probably be refugee camps set up for them just like there are in Turkey for the Syrians.

There is no doubt in my mind that a giant catastrophe awaits the world within the next thirty to fifty years. Tipping points such as perma-frost melt and the release of tons of methane into the atmosphere to join the CO2 already there, increase the likelihood of very rapid warming that will take place within weeks.

I have come to the conclusion that the way we’ve developed as a species, unlike bees, has not been conducive to our collective well-being (the whole hive). In the US and in many other countries, the rights of the individual pre-empt that of the species and the planet as a whole. Under those circumstances we are incapable both morally and socially of putting ourselves aside.

As you can see I believe it’s a foregone conclusion that civilization as we know it will take some massive blows as tipping point events increase.

I am a recent science fiction writer who focuses on climate change and rather than the dystopia I believe is in our future, I’ve tried to write about how we might survive it and go on. It’s led me to think about what kind of society we might have developed had we focused on the collective well-being of our species and that of our planet. I even have my characters visit a parallel universe where Tesla’s inventions were adopted and not Edisons.

The kind of research and world building I do prevents me from getting too depressed about what I believe is inevitably coming our way. We are a planet of choice, and those choices I’m afraid have already been made by us not for us.