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@ClimateBen
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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Jun 21
Has capitalism left it too late to avoid hellish 2/2.5°C of global warming and rising?

Yes.

Can we adapt?

No.

Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating political-economic systems changes are mandatory?

Yes.

Will journalists reveal this?

No.

🧵
The planet you think you're living on no longer exists. This Extinction Economy has set up conditions which scientists fear will prove unsurvivable for the majority of species within decades. Change this Doom-growth system now while it's still too late.
Global warming will happen faster than expected
Mass extinction media won't explain why we will hit 2/2.5°C by or before 2040-41. They are part of the state-corporate doom machine and don't want you researching clouds, aerosols, and climate sensitivity. Time to rethink to protect species and everyone.

Read 9 tweets
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Jun 17
BREAKING: fears of catastrophe grow as Establishment scientists who organised IPCC's dangerously wrong climate assumptions begin to acknowledge they were wrong 🧵
1. Are Establishment figures really beginning to acknowledge their mistake? Scientists like Hansen, Simons, etc have been pointing out the likelihood of 2°C by the 2030s for a long time, but corporate journalists naturally refuse to investigate seriously.
2. Conservative scientists have insisted for years we should disregard models that show even more extreme warming should be anticipated (and sooner) than the already extreme warming previously expected.

carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how…
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May 10
Irreversible unsurvivable warming:

1.5-1.75°C by 2024-2026
1.75-2°C by 2029-2031
2-2.25°C by 2034-2036

Time's up.

Rethink human systems now to protect species and everyone while it's still too late.

🧵 1.75°C by 2030
State-corporate journalists/editors have ignored the latest climate models for years and years. They've had the information needed to warn the public for decades. Hellish two degrees and rising in the 2030s is nearly here.

System change to try to survive.
The Extinction Economy is wiping out life as we know it. 40-70% of species are at critical extreme risk of extinction within a few decades. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in the annihilation of biodiversity and life as we know it.

🧵
Read 5 tweets
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Apr 29
Scientists used to think utterly unsurvivable extremes wouldn't hit until 2081-2300 or later (or never). Now they fully expect abrupt global extinction horror by the 2040s.
1. 'What happens in the next two decades will very likely define the future of biodiversity and H. sapiens.' From 2023.

2.
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Mar 30
DOOM: For 250 years between 1720 and 1969, the US, UK, & Europe were the main CO2 emitters and the key wreckers of biodiversity. These criminal countries subsequently blocked any attempts to change the deeply entrenched economic system away from deadly capitalism and growth. Share of global CO2 emissions- Our World in Data
1. The US knew by the 1950s/60s that systems change was required to avoid global catastrophe. Scientists informed the President. However, the priorities remained power and wealth.

2.
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Mar 24
Earth's species will suffer global warming of 2, 2.5, or 3°C in 12 to 14 years. (No scientist really thinks we won't hit at least 1.96°C for the first time by 2038 after hitting 1.68°C in 2024.) Primates like humans are unlikely to survive for very much longer. Time to rethink.🧵 Headline excerpt : the world will see 3°C much faster than expected
1. "a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival." @jeremycorbyn
Organise for political and economic system change action while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.
dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3°C trend from 2045.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
@jeremycorbyn 2.
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