Earth is rapidly being transformed into a desert planet with catastrophic consequences for most living things.
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4 - 5 billion people, most of them already living in poverty, will see their habitats undergo an acutely challenging transformation as we head rapidly to an extremely dangerous 2.5°C world of year long droughts and food shortages due to locked in warming and climate feedbacks.
Desertification - the greatest threat.
Land degradation of dry lands:
North and southern Africa, western North America, Australia, the Middle East & Central Asia. Drylands are home to 2.7 billion people – 90% of whom live in developing countries'carbonbrief.org/explainer-dese…
Aridification will emerge over ~25% of Earth's land surface.
Areas most affected: SE Asia, S. Europe, S. Africa, Central America and Southern Australia - home to more than 1.5 billion people. Areas would become more arid; droughts & wildfires widespread.
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
We're hurtling into 'climate states without societal precedent, challenging adaptation', a world where 'climates like those of the Pliocene will prevail as soon as 2030'.
2. 5°C by 2030: to a climate 'outside the range of evolutionary adaptive capacity'?
The implications are clear.
Surviving decently (or at all) in a world of rapidly escalating extreme water stress/scarcity & mega-drought food shortages is quickly going to become exceedingly difficult for billions of people.
See thread here for 4°C:👇
See the thread under my Pinned Tweet for what we can do about all this.
It is time to dismantle colonial, corporate capitalism and shift the world into a new phase of climate justice. The alternative is a mass die-off.
We're endangered mammals. 👇
Bonus Ecological Apocalypse thread:👇
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