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@ClimateBen
Aug 24, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Pollinators are being annihilated with catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth.

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Climate breakdown, pesticide use and modern farming techniques are to blame for rapid population declines.

Many species that pollinate plants including wild bees and butterflies are shrinking toward extinction.

Human food supplies are threatened.

cbc.ca/news/technolog…
Pollinators threatened with extinction:

🐝 🦋 40% of invertebrate species (bees, butterflies etc)

🦇 🐦 16% of vertebrate (bats & birds etc)

The causes:

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

⚠️Corporate ecocide.⚠️
grist.org/food/mass-exti…
We cannot survive without pollinators.

'Insects are at the heart of every kind of ecological process'

'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

m.dw.com/en/we-cannot-s…
These pollinators are all critically endangered. 👇

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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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Jun 28
BREAKING:  scientists now all agree humanity faces a global food supply catastrophe in roughly a decade or two 🧵
Biodiversity destruction/extinction disaster plus 2, 2.5 or even 3°C of warming by 2048.

This means severe sustained global impacts on food systems by 2035-2050 with conditions so extreme scientists can't prove they're survivable.


carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
phys.org/news/2023-09-h…
IPCC SRCCL report: Risks to land-related human systems and ecosystems Fig SPM 2
Even establishment climate scientists who organise consensus views (and often downplay catastrophe) show we can anticipate 2.1°C by (2035- ) 2050 at which point impacts become too severe to manage.



Climate is just one factor.
🧵:
ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/…

IPCC SRCCL report: risks to land-related human systems and ecosystems
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Jun 21
Scientists now know today's capitalist economic system can't limit global warming to well below 2°C meaning human adaptation will not be feasible as the conditions for modern agriculture disappear forever in the coming years. Most scientists accept this. Some aren't ready yet. 🧵
Officially, CO2 emissions would have needed to be reduced by a staggering 70% in the 2020s to limit global warming to well below 2°C (when CDR fails). This is obviously not feasible: economic growth has left us with record high emissions approaching 2025.

carbonbrief.org/guest-post-emi…
CO2 is now at around 428 ppm and rising, suggesting Earth is 'locked into rises of 3C-4C in the next few centuries.'

And biodiversity destruction is accelerating.

Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late.
dumptheguardian.com/science/2019/a…
Read 8 tweets
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Jun 18
We're about to hit 1.7./1.8°C of global warming for the first time and journalists are completely silent. This is how the Extinction Economy tells you lies as it completes the destruction of the habitable planet we once knew. 🧵
1. We're already well over 1.6°C over 12 months for the first time.

And 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.

Read 5 tweets
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Jun 14
BREAKING: the world's most conservative scientists have changed their minds and now say they agree species like humans face catastrophically extreme global ecological and climate chaos impacts that will be beyond our ability to adapt within 15 years - give or take a decade 🧵
The most comprehensive extinction forecast of 15- 37 or even 50% of species wiped out by mid-century is likely too conservative. Biodiversity destruction during capitalism is worse than ever. Now the most cautious climate scientists expect 2°C by the 2040s.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
We've known for years we can't adapt after 1.5/2°C. The IPCC caught up in 2022. Mass media journalists? Silent. State-corporate media won't even mention climate change or fossil fuels when reporting climate chaos. Biodiversity? Extinction? Hardly a word.
carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-th…
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