A ‘Global change’ eulogy, sermons and obituaries: ‘Everest’, its models, the reality, the governmental mis-behavior, associated institutional terror and the global abuse of the hindu kush-himalaya region

Abstract

Climate change - the man-made aspects and implications of it - represent the topic of our time. It affects virtually all fabrics of our life-style and the globe, as we know it (see Mukherji et al. 2015 for the Hindu Kush-Himalaya HKH region). But climate change also easily presents a fear-monger for policy, industry and the public, and rightly so due its severity and lack of progress for decades (e.g. half of the glaciers in the HKH melted just since 2000: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalayan-glacier-melting-doubled-since-2000-scientists-reveal). It’s specifically clear here that policy, industry, institutions and the established public fail on it; simply judged by carbon footprints due to consumption. The real-world implications of climate change are massive either way, even in the best of all current predictions, and they are currently not really overpredicted, thus far (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans-annotated.html). Considering political inaction and increase of CO2 and Methane the real-world forecast is not that it will just get a few degrees warmer, globally, but instead that we actually could well be burned (Evers 2019 and citations within). From all we know, climate change comes without borders and without any consideration of man-kind or of life. If life moves out of its ecological climate niche it simply will die, and human societies are facing their end (Mukherji et al. 2019; see Miehe et al. 2017 and Wester et al. 2019 for a wider underestimate of reality impacts in the HKH region).