18 lost years
Sorting through my files, I came across this Pentagon «prophecy» again, published by The Observer and The Guardian in 2004. It’s striking how, 18 years on, it’s all coming true.
Clearly, they’ve been 18 lost years.
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
— Mark Townsend and Paul Harris, «Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us», The Observer, 22 February 2004