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:
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.
'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. 😱 👇
The factory food, fossil fuel, and arms industries are all thriving. Cement, plastics, steel.. This capitalist Extinction Economy is the worst-case scenario. It won't stop emissions. It has condemned us to essentially unsurvivable warming at 1.9-2°C and rising by 2029-41. 🧵
1. Mass media journalists are silent on 2°C by 2032-41 as warming hits 1.38-1.5C increasing by 0.35-0.45C per decade.
'12 months after the peak of the El Niño event and global temperatures are still exceptionally high'
BREAKING: World Meteorological Organization issues Red Alert to humanity as accelerating global warming of 1.4-1.7°C and rising heralds essentially unsurvivable conditions within years not decades 🧵
1. The January –September 2024 global mean surface air temperature was 1.54°C (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial average boosted by a warming El Niño event according to an analysis of six international datasets used by WMO.
BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵
1. Time has run out to avoid 1.5°C (now sure to hit in the 2020s) and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. 1.75°C will be exceeded soon after with dire 2°C expected by 2030-2050
2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe.
Biodiversity destruction is a core part of the reality of industrial capitalism.
Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.🧵⬇️
COLLAPSING: scientists confirm there's no doubt humanity will see the real risk of catastrophic multiple breadbasket failures by 2035-2045 🧵
1. “.. we will, certainly, in the next 15 to 20 years, see continued food crises, and the real risk of multiple breadbasket failures … that’s in addition to a lot of the other risks that might impact us through fresh-water pollution, ocean acidification..”dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
IPBES report: a market-based focus on economic growth meant the wider benefits of nature – including spiritual, cultural and emotional value – had been ignored x.com/ClimateBen/sta…
2. even under conservative climate projections predicting a 2°C rise, it is evident that plankton cannot keep pace with the rapid warming we are experiencing, which shows no signs of slowing down'
BREAKING: scientists confirm plastic production is unsustainable and must end as their fears that 30-70% of Earth's species will go extinct this century intensify 🧵
1. “What is clear is we cannot manage the amount of plastic we are producing..Only 10% of it gets recycled, something needs to be done"