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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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Nov 4
BREAKING: with some form of collapse now underway, scientists say there has been a terrifying lack of progress on stopping the annihilation of species and ecosystems crucial for human survival.. meanwhile, in totally unrelated news, corporate profits are hitting record highs 🧵
"..government and big corporations.. the blame lies on them."

Next to nothing done to curb extinction since 2022

(See real quote
google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…)
Gross domestic product (GDP) and corporate profits both smashed expectations in..4th quarter of 2023
google.com/amp/s/thehill.…
Absolutely horrifying projections from 2019-2020 are turning out to be more or less accurate it would seem. Collapse has been with us for a while and is now becoming more and more obvious.

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Nov 3
BREAKING: climate scientists warn imminent collapse of the AMOC (the major ocean current system) will in turn trigger collapse in the Amazon Rainforest 🧵
1. phenomenon could cause irreversible collapse of forest cover

'climate change triggered by the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Cell, combined with changes in land use linked to deforestation, would cause irreversible damage to the biome'olhardigital.com.br/2024/11/01/cie…
1b. 'areas in the north of the region would be strongly impacted by the reduction in rainfall'
olhardigital.com.br/2024/11/01/cie…
And..
1.5°C plus degradation, fires & deforestation: tipping point for south, center & east of the Amazon - 50% to 70% of the forest gone
google.com/amp/s/news.mon…
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Nov 2
BREAKING: scientists warn catastrophically rapid extreme global warming at hellish 2°C for the first time by 2029-2031 is plausible. 🧵
1. The IPCC still claims we're at 1.1°C. The epic downplaying is criminal.

Decadal warming of 0.43°C and rising it seems.

Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction horror.

Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late. Image
2. Listen to the anti-capitalist activisists..

Read 5 tweets
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Nov 1
BREAKING: shocking new climate consensus revealed as more than 9 out of 10 scientists agree all viable paths to stay below hellish 2°C of warming under capitalism are now gone 🧵
1/We need global mobilization on a scale and pace never seen before or the 1.5C goal will soon be dead and well below 2C will take its place in the intensive care unit'

Scientists know:

these are just words

a 1/3 of emissions won't be cut within years
unep.org/news-and-stori…
2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe.

Things are going ro get worse before they get worse, I'm afraid.
Courage.
Solidarity.

Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species & everyone.
Guardian chart adapted from paper showing 95% ofnIPCC dcientists anticipate 2C.
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Oct 31
BREAKING: major new health report shows food insecurity and hunger are rising "relentlessly" during capitalism as ecological breakdown intensifies 🧵
1. The Lancet Climate & Health report.

Catastrophic hunger increasing.

2.
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Oct 31
BREAKING: horror and disgust as negotiators at COP16 remove call to transition away from fossil fuels from the UN nature summit's draft agreement 🧵
1. 'A coalition of nearly 150 campaign groups published a joint letter to negotiators calling on them to halt new oil and gas activity in nature-rich areas like the Amazon rainforest and the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines.'

climatechangenews.com/2024/10/29/fos…
2.
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