Imagine a world where the average temperature is 4 degrees higher than in pre-industrial times. A world where days of the worst heat waves , such as we have experienced in recent years, would be just ordinary summer days, sometimes approaching 50 degrees in the shade or even exceeding it in some areas of the planet. A world of drought, anemic groundwater, now dried up megabaslin , natural springs flowing so low that even the licensed fillers . A world where cyclones and tropical storms now ravage areas where they were unknown, where gigantic forest fires would occur almost routinely and burden the atmosphere with particles that further pollute cities. A world where the price of electricity would rise and … (Jean-Paul Fritz)