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Aug 21, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Pollinators are being wiped out to the point of extinction, with catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth.

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'pollination depends on thousands of wild insect types, such as bumblebees, flies and beetles.'

Scientists have known for years that pollinators are increasingly under threat.

From 2013:

ft.com/content/a7ffe7…
Extinction:

40% of invertebrate pollinator species (bees, butterflies) and 16% of vertebrate pollinators (bats & birds) are threatened with extinction.

The causes:

🔺pesticides
🔺habitat loss due to development
🔺pathogens
🔺global warming

From 2016:
grist.org/food/mass-exti…
Up to 50% of global bee species may be threatened with extinction:

'a variety of agricultural practices are contributing to steep declines in key pollinating species'

m.phys.org/news/2016-02-p…
Disappearing bumblebee species under threat of extinction:

The American Bumblebee is critically endangered. The native N. American species, Bombus pensylvanicus, faces imminent extinction from Canada, highest/most at-risk classification before extinction.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/…
Bees:

'Insects are at the heart of every kind of ecological process you can think of.'

'If you're a bee and you are sick and poisoned and hungry all at the same time, then it is not surprising you might die.'

#EcologicalEmergency #pesticides

m.dw.com/en/we-cannot-s…
By 2013 it was believed that 1 in 5 of the millions of invertebrate species on Earth was at risk of Extinction.

Some of the most cherished species of all—butterflies—showed signs of a significant decline in population if not outright disappearance.
👇
independent.co.uk/environment/be…
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Apr 30
BREAKING: scientists say global CO₂ emissions in the first months of 2024 remain as high as ever confirming the neoliberal energy transition project is a failure set to end in mass death and extinction without immediate economic system change 🧵
1. Capitalism means rapid mass extinction due to biodiversity destruction. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.

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2. Emissions should've peaked and plummeted by 2015-2024 at the very latest to avoid the end of this world at 2/2.5°C according to scientists who assume ongoing economic growth. Mass media editors omit this reality. Only system change offers protection.
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Apr 6
BREAKING: staggered climate scientists warn anything is now possible (and they mean anything) after the biggest jump in temperature ever recorded anywhere on Earth occurs in the Antarctic
1. "if we had a 40C rise in the UK now.. that would be deadly for the population.”

Glaciologist Prof Martin Siegert, of the University of Exeter: “No one in our community thought that anything like this could ever happen."

“It is simply mind-boggling”

dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
2. Capitalism means rapid mass extinction via biodiversity annihilation. Corporations have locked in the destruction of the planet as we knew it. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Change this Extinction Economy.
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Apr 5
BREAKING: IPCC scientist reveals it's actually been years since their models first indicated the catastrophic global warming acceleration now happening was to be expected 🧵
1. The IPCC is still silent on it's own findings

a) models show the current catastrophic global warming acceleration of the 2020s was to be expected

Why wasn't this communicated back in 2018- 2022?


b) emissions should've peaked by ~2022 to avoid 3/3.5°Ccarbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-…
2. 'To keep global temperatures below 1.5C, 2C or even 2.5C, emissions must peak before 2025'

The IPCC still hasn't communicated this. It seems this is true for 3°C, too. Virtually the only mass media article that explained the situation back in 2022:
france24.com/en/environment…
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Apr 3
BREAKING: climate scientists confirm catastrophic accelerated warming set to hit this decade 🧵
1. 'we may expect an accelerated surface temperature warming in this decade'

'a positive EEI confirms the lag of the climate system in responding to forcing and implies that additional global warming will take place even without further forcing changes"
nature.com/articles/s4324…
2.
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Apr 3
BREAKING: scientific community begins to confront widespread denial with team of distinguished scientists publishing a paper explicitly stating exploitative wealth-oriented capitalism must be replaced immediately as the extinction of 32- 70% of Earth's species in decades looms🧵
1/'a critical paradigm shift must occur that replaces exploitative, wealth-oriented capitalism with an economic model that prioritizes sustainability, resilience, and justice'

* increasing clarity on mandatory economic change

* flaws on carrying capacity
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…
2/ The recent research cited in the paper agrees with previous studies showing that up to 40- 70% of species risk extinction.

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Mar 28
BREAKING: as Earth's major forests begin to collapse a new report shows 95% of companies behind catastrophic rapid industrial-scale deforestation have failed to take meaningful action since pledging to stop the destruction 10 years ago with a 2025 tipping point deadline looming🧵
1. Rainforests in SE Asia have hit tipping points. 20- 26% of the Amazon Rainforest is in a state of collapse

"The tipping point is not a future scenario but rather a stage already present"

Savannization is already taking place in both Brazil and Bolivia.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/0…
2. Climate scientist and Amazon Rainforest expert Carlos Nobre warns that deforestation across the whole of the Amazon must end by next year.

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