Thread by @ClimateBen

BREAKING: world's scientists show that without immediate, total system change the activities of the global growth economy will lead us to mass death and extinctions by around 2045

🧵 1. It's not too late to totally change the global system hurtling us into mass extinction (as >20,000 scientists warn) by rapidly expanding the growing movement for a postgrowth economy to avoid a dead world of ruined habitats, but media remain silent.ecowatch.com/warning-to-hum…

2. 10%-20% of plants, insects, fish, birds, and mammals face extinction at 1.6-2°C due to abrupt climate change, but more species are also threatened by the habitat destruction & pollution of the global growth-inequality economy.

We can act.

Info thread:

3. IPCC scientists' best estimates based on continued economic growth:

Horrific global warming of

1.6C 'by mid-century' (extremely optimistic scenarios)

'2C somewhere between the early 2040s and early 2050s' (realistic projections); 2032-2039 possible.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…

4. Mass death of species has already begun at 1C-1.4C of warming, and will become far worse. It's painful to acknowledge this, but more painful and damaging to deny it or remain silent.

Not mentioning climate change until paragraph 17: typical downplaying.cbc.ca/radio/thecurre…

5. Billions of children, women, and men, especially in the Global South, oppressed & exploited by poverty, face atrocious dangers in the 2020s/30s and beyond. We must and can have total change to protect everyone.

Media rarely share the POSTGROWTH answer:cnbc.com/2021/02/19/deg…

6. IUCN: 20% of species in danger of extinction in 2020s-40s; scientifically undeniable we're on path of 6th major extinction
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

'western, white and elitist framing of reality' 'centuries of European colonization and fossil capitalism'frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

7. Mass mortality events have been becoming more frequent and increasing in magnitude for decades.

We must acknowledge mass deaths of the very recent past, present, and the near future at 1.6-2C to limit damage.

This must become context for all reporting.cbsnews.com/news/mass-anim…

8. State-corporate media unsurprisingly ignore the fact that the whole global economy must be totally changed as this would threaten profits and extreme wealth. Abrupt climate change is a staggering threat, but the entire system must change for survival:

9. The US, Canada, and Russia are major food producers, as well as being the countries with most of the Northern Hemispheres permafrost which is beginning to thaw.

And these countries are the fastest warming.

We need to:
rethink energy
build agroecology

10. A rapid, postgrowth, political-economic-system-change transition to tackle utterly unsustainable overconsumption by the ultra-wealthy/affluent is possible. We must be informed why this is necessary, though. It means breaking media silence.

Info thread:

11. A 1998 American Museum of Natural History poll found 70% of 400 biology experts agreed Earth is in one of its fastest mass extinctions threating humans and 20%-50% of species by 2027:

mysterium.com/amnh.html

Mass media are silent 99.9% of the time:

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m…