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@ClimateBen
Aug 23, 2019 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Remember:

1. The Air is poisonous
2. The Land is toxic
3. The Water is contaminated
4. The Seas are polluted
5. The Trees are dying
6. The Plants are sick
7. The Birds are starving
8. The Animals are endangered

The Ecological Emergency should be front page news every single day
'What should we do?' is the question many want answered:

1. Learn more about #ClimateJustice:


2. Take action:


Nobody has the perfect idea of how to respond to the mad predicament of Abrupt Climate Breakdown & Ecological Collapse.
⚠️ 2 Billion Kids Exposed To Poisonous Air Every Day:

Over half a million 0 - 4 year olds are killed each year by oil, coal & gas corporations, vehicle manufacturers' CEOs, and governments which enable the burning of fossil fuels & vehicle emissions.💔m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58…
Microplastic nanoparticles have entered the food chain. ⚠️

One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater, most of it disintegrating into particles smaller than 5mm.

Fragments of plastic are present all over the world.

unenvironment.org/news-and-stori…
The whole system of regulating chemicals that may end up in our water and setting limits is broken. For example... cbsnews.com/news/drinking-…
The “invisible” crisis of water quality is threatening human and environmental well-being. 

In some regions, rivers and lakes are so polluted that they are literally catching fire.

news.un.org/en/story/2019/…
Plastic contamination is slowly "killing the human race".

It will soon be "catastrophic" for human health.
news.sky.com/story/plastic-…
Forests are being destroyed everywhere, particularly in the tropical rainforests:
The international trade in plants, travel and #ClimateChange are all contributing to an acceleration in the rate of new tree diseases.

'One of the worst tree disease epidemics the UK has ever seen...'

theconversation.com/ash-dieback-on…
Climate change-induced drought will make plant diseases worse.' scimex.org/newsfeed/droug…

'Across nearly 130 varieties of plants..the overall concentration of minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc and iron had dropped by 8 percent on average.'
politico.com/agenda/story/2…
Report on bird declines: intensive farming and pesticides could turn Europe’s farmland into a desert that ultimately imperils all humans. ⚠️

The human race faces Death. If newspapers cared for people not profit, this would constantly be the top story.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is the Sixth Mass Extinction.

This thread of threads shows how ALL life on the planet is now in danger. 😱 👇

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Jul 24
BREAKING: scientists now fully expect global warming levels severe enough to harm all sectors of civilization including food and water within a decade or two as the world's biggest all-time emitters the US and UK refuse to stop fossil fuel expansion 🧵
1. Scientists project 1.9- 2°C by the 2030s or 2040s.

In the 2010s, scientists agreed 2°C would mean harm/dislocations for civilization. In 2022, the IPCC's AR6 report showed extreme impacts at 2°C will be even worse than previously expected.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
2. 'countries including the UK, the US.. are increasingly being thought of by some experts as the “other petrostates”

'Just five global north governments – the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and Norway – are responsible for a majority of planned expansion..dumptheguardian.com/environment/ar…
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Jul 23
BREAKING: mass media stay silent as climate scientists all agree economic growth means Earth's species face the threat of dire 1.75- 2°C of global warming by the 2030s 🧵
1. Conservative estimates imply threat of >1.7°C by the 2030s.

James Hansen warns of 2°C.

'This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being close to an all-time high and a reduction in the cooling impacts of aerosols'carbonbrief.org/guest-post-tra…
2. Conservative projections show 2°C as early as 2037. Species like humans reach limits of adaptation at this point. (Tropical ecosystems wrecked at 1.5°C.)

Change this Extinction Economy now to protect species and everyone now while it's still too late.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
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Jul 18
BREAKING:  climate scientists fear the worst after discovering Earth's plants and soils stopped absorbing CO₂ last year 🧵
1. 'Collapse of the land carbon sink in 2023..

plants and soils absorbed almost no CO2 last year'

'we may see a rapid acceleration of CO2 and global warming.. unforeseen in future climate models projections'

'ugly consequences'



arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447
2. Organise political and economic system change now to protect species and everyone.

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Jul 16
BREAKING: scientists confirm rapid deoxygenation of oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams is now a threat to the stability of life on Earth 🧵
1. 'ongoing deoxygenation presents a major threat to the livelihoods of large parts of society and for the stability of life on our planet'

Causes of oxygen loss:

global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions

input of nutrients as a result of land use

phys.org/news/2024-07-l…
2. 'Planetary boundaries represent thresholds in major Earth system processes that are sensitive to human activity and control global-scale habitability and stability

critical oxygen thresholds are being approached at rates comparable to other.. processes'
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Jul 2
An amazing news story totally ignored by state-corporate media: according to even the most conservative and optimistic consensus assumptions there had to be 'immediate action' years ago at the very latest with emissions peaking and falling by now to avoid utterly catastrophic 2C.
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For 1.5C, 2025 greehouse gas emissions would be 20-30% lower than 2020 levels, and between 10-20% lower for 2C.

Emissions are higher than ever in July 2024.

This Extinction Economy means 2.5/3°C by the 2040s or soon after.
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Jul 2
BREAKING: scientists warn we're beginning to feel the effects of a geologically instantaneous 21st century shift into extreme and unsurvivable conditions 🧵
1. 'We are starting to feel the effects of transitioning to a hothouse climate (ΔT  +4-5 °C) in a geological instant'

The global change happening now is potentially like the Permian extinction which occurred in just a few centuries.

phys.org/news/2018-09-e…
2. "In my view it is impossible to survive that sort of change (4°C by 2100). That is beyond human physiology. But that is the trajectory we are on now.. No matter what we do with all the whiz-bang technology.. physiologically we cant survive that."

News?
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