BREAKING: climate scientists confirm global crop yields will start to drop dramatically by 2025-2034 🧵
1. Best-case scenario for climate change is now 1.6°C of warming.
1.5°C by 2020-2029 in all economic growth scenarios. 1.6-2.1°C to follow by ~2035.
Dire ~5-50% drop in crop yields by 2030s anticipated.
🧵 newscientist.com/article/244431…
esd.copernicus.org/articles/12/25…
2. A major food systems shock in the coming decades must be anticipated.
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3. Food system transformation..
Industrial agriculture means biodiversity annihilation and extinction.
How many journalists will discuss agroecology and other such alternatives? insideclimatenews.org/news/26082024/…
4. Crop yields 'one of our most important problems'
if we measure global poverty at.. $7.40 per day.. the number of people living under this line has increased dramatically..reaching..4.2 billion people today
ourworldindata.org/crop-yields
dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
5. Projections for 1.5°C of global warming range from 2027 to 2033 with 2025 or 2026 possible.
6. Limiting global warming to 1.5°c would [have] reduce[d] risks to humans by up to 85%
Climate scientists' models project 1.5°C by 2028 or befopre and 2°C by 2046 or perhaps as early as the 2030s.
preventionweb.net/news/limiting-…
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8. ' Crop yields .. For people and the planet, it’s one of our most important problems'
~ Our World in Data
ourworldindata.org/crop-yields
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