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🧵 BREAKING NEWS
UN says historic global biodiversity agreement to save species and humanity will be like the Paris 1.5°C climate goal but for nature
also the UN: climate goal of 1.5°C is nearly dead
UN says historic global biodiversity agreement to save species and humanity will be like the Paris 1.5°C climate goal but for nature
also the UN: climate goal of 1.5°C is nearly dead
1. 'COP15 aims to achieve an historic agreement to halt and reverse nature loss, on par with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. What is adopted in Montreal will essentially be a global blueprint to save the planet’s dwindling biodiversity.'
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2. It's not just 1.5°C. Emissions are rising as capitalism ends the world by creating a 2/2.5°C global warming hell on Earth.
Emissions should have peaked immediately this year (2020 - 2025) to avoid 1.5C, 2°C, or 2.5°C.
A few scientists remain hopeful..
dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
Emissions should have peaked immediately this year (2020 - 2025) to avoid 1.5C, 2°C, or 2.5°C.
A few scientists remain hopeful..
dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
1. GDP growth is driving habitat destruction, pollution, and abrupt climate change threatening over half of UK butterfly species. Scientists say radical economic change is required.
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…
2. Invertebrate extinctions not taken into account by the IUCN Red List demonstrate we are in a mass extinction which could be complete this century without radical action to stop today's #ExtinctionEconomy.
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Extinction due to GDP growth is now projected to be so extreme (20%-50% of species by the 2040s) scientists are calling for economic system change even as they freeze the cells of amphibians, birds, and mammals in case future generations can bring them back from annihilation.🧵
1. Scientists are calling for revolutionary economic transformation.
10,000s of scientists have for decades called for alternatives to GDP growth.
>1,000 are now engaged in civil disobedience.
Even the conservative IPCC now calls for a rethink on growth.
10,000s of scientists have for decades called for alternatives to GDP growth.
>1,000 are now engaged in civil disobedience.
Even the conservative IPCC now calls for a rethink on growth.
2. The BBC is still inviting climate deniers to sit alongside pro-growth neoliberals on their flagship TV programmes. They won't explain the real reason why this is happening: we are living in a habitat-destroying, climate-wrecking #ExtinctionEconomy.
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Scientists say the public should be terrified by the deluge of recent extinction research known as 'the Apocalypse Papers' calling for it to immediately become part of daily human conversations. 🧵
1. 'The public should be terrified by these findings,. The natural habitats are still being bulldozed and lost on a daily basis,. It has to become part of daily conversation and awareness, and it’s not right now.”
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2. “I have a whole folder, I call them apocalypse papers,” said Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, a prominent U.S. environmental advocacy and research center.'
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Do climate and energy experts often ignore the fact we're in a mass extinction that's now accelerating during 21st century capitalism because it disrupts their visions of 'solutions'?
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1. We're in a mass extinction due to habitat destruction, pollution, and many other factors including abrupt climate change: 20% (30-50%?) of species face extinction by 2050, and 75% of mammals as early as 2300.
We don't know which species can survive 1.75°C-2.75°C by the 2040s.
We don't know which species can survive 1.75°C-2.75°C by the 2040s.
2. It seems many climate and energy experts say climate change won't lead to human extinction within decades or centuries, without acknowledging that extinction threats to species come from a range of activities likely to be maintained in a 'green' growth, 'clean' energy economy.
