The Amazon Rainforest will be gone by 2029, with catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth.
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The Amazon Rainforest could be converted into barren desert *overnight*.
🔺response to rising global temperatures & increased risk of severe drought “non-linear”
🔺Huge risk of hitting irreversible tipping point
🔺Scientific models underestimate risk
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
State-corporate media have known about climate catastrophe and the death of the Amazon for decades.
Papers like @guardian won't make it sustained front page news.
And it's never on TV.
Only those on social media can inform themselves about this crisis.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
The book 'Six Degrees' discusses feedbacks under the heading 'The death of the Amazon':
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1108996…
It states the Amazon will be 'doomed' over 2°C.
And we will go over 2°C very soon.
Meanwhile, deforestation continues for cattle and feed.
The Amazon Rainforest has experienced three 100-yr droughts in the space of just 10 years.
counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/the…
In the past 50 years, ~20% of the Amazon has been cut down in Brazil.
⚠️If another 20% of the Amazon were to go, that could trigger a dieback feedback loop, in which the forest dries out and burns. The Amazon would devolve into a savannah-like landscape.⚠️businessinsider.fr/us/amazon-rain…
Climate breakdown could speed up the large-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest and bring the "point of no return" much closer than previously thought.
⚠️ Almost 60% of the region's forests could be wiped out or severely damaged by 2030.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
ALL TROPICAL RAINFORESTS ARE BEING KILLED.
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Amazon destruction from deforestation is at a peak. Desertification at 1.5°C - 2°C will follow as climate breakdown fires cause widespread collapse of the fragmented forests.
Corporate capitalism is killing life on the planet.
68% of the Indigenous lands and protected natural areas in the nine nations encompassing the Amazon region are under pressure from roads, mining, dams, oil drilling, forest fires and deforestation.
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/amazon…
Explore this thread and the threads within for how we're heading into Climate Chaos & Ecological Calamity, all because of omnicidal, colonial capitalism, and downplayed by state-corporate media, even (especially) the newspapers trusted by people who care.👇
See here for more on the Amazon:
See here for the full, extraordinary planetary cataclysm, and what awaits us by 2029.👇
'What should I/we do?' is what everybody asks.
Do what you think is morally right.
Push for #ClimateJustice for the 5-6 billion people living 10$ a day or less.
Vote for those who value system change - yes, Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, for example.
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