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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 23
icymi: our coastal cities will be smashed by multi-metre sea level rise within decades Peak global mean temperature, atmospheric CO2, maximum global mean sea level (GMSL), and source(s) of meltwater.  Light blue shading indicates uncertainty of GMSL maximum. Red pie charts over Greenland and Antarctica denote fraction (not location) of ice retreat.
The Greenland ice sheet is now losing around 9 billion litres of ice an hour [Geological Survey of Denmark &Greenland]

With the ice sheet at “a tipping point of irreversible melting”, scientists currently expect an unavoidable sea level rise of 1-2 metres.weforum.org/stories/2025/0…
4 to 10 m sea level rise committed in the coming 2000 years, with the majoroty of that in the coming decades/centuries it would appear.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Jul 21
BREAKING: horrific worst-case scenarios firmly back on the table as scientists confirm large-scale Earth systems such as forests, ice sheets, and ocean currents may already be collapsing 🧵
'large-scale Earth systems may be experiencing gradual collapses that are easy to miss, with profound implications

"we may already be crossing tipping points without realizing"

Slow changes can be deceptive

some systems may slide into collapse silently'
phys.org/news/2025-07-e…
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Jul 19
BREAKING: as global warming accelerates wildly normally reticent Establishment scientists begin to discuss plausibility of near-term human extinction 🧵
1/'It seems very unlikely that extinction is on the table for any but the most severe scenarios of climate negligence. However, it is easy to envision a collapse of human civilization.'

What Dr Mann won't say: new papers show 3.5-5°C is entirely likely. gizmodo.com/is-climate-cha…
2/We know relatively low levels of warming like 2 or 2.5°C (which are in fact absolutely extreme given the rapid rate of change) could mean human extinction. Dr Mann would agree 2.25-3.25°C is likely/very likely to hit in a few/handful of decades.

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Jul 19
BREAKING: climate scientists say it's now easy to envision a collapse of human civilization 🧵
1. it is easy to envision a collapse of human civilization:

'Without even appealing to the uncertain science of climate tipping points, the known impacts of climate change.. would be more than adequate to destabilize our societal infrastructure.'
gizmodo.com/is-climate-cha…
2. Climate scientists project 2°C and rising by the 2030s/40s, with 2.5°C or more by the 2040s/50s or soon after. There is no evidence whatsoever humans can survive that rate of change and the abrupt shift to extreme new conditions.

2-4°C is very likely.
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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.

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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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