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1.5 billion children in poverty are set to face climate catastrophe by 2029.

#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #schoolstrike4climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice
Unicef report: how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected.

The distribution of the world’s 2.3 billion children has important implications for assessing the impacts of climate change.

Population under 18 yrs of age per sq km (2015).unicef.org/reports/unless…
'Under a ‘business-as-usual’
scenario (RCP 8.5) approximately
1.45 billion children will be living in
zones where average temperature at surface has changed from 0-2ºC to 2-4ºC'.

Unicef's 2015 report suggested 2050, but climate breakdown is faster than expected.
Save The Children say a billion kids live in countries with poverty,

bbc.com/news/world-443…

however, 84% of people live below the U.S. 20$/day poverty line:

forbes.com/sites/timworst…

71% live on less than 10$/day.

⚠️ 55% lack money for basic nutrition.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Ben See
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Insect apocalypse:

1. 98% loss in some regions
2. entomologists: crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity decline
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. link to bird, lizard, frog declines
6. fears for food chain
7. culprit: habitat destruction
8. also pesticides, climate change
'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'

'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
The calamity appears to be across most insect families and happening around the world:

On a scale of 0 to 10, researchers on six continents rated the severity of the insect abundance crisis as either 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10.
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Ben See
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Why won't state-corporate media put 2035 or 2040 in the headlines for articles on sea level rise?

Bangkok, for example, is set to be 40% underwater by 2030 according to the World Bank.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
'A World Bank study predicted that 40 percent of the Thai capital may be submerged by 2030.'

Thailand's 2015 National Reform Council report predicted that Bangkok risks being submerged as early as the 2020s:

aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/t…
By 2060, about 1.4 billion people could be climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels. Those who once lived on coastlines will face displacement and resettlement bottlenecks as they seek habitable places inland. news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/0…
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Remember:

🇹🇭 Bangkok
🇵🇭 Manila
🇮🇳 Mumbai
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
🇮🇩 Jakarta
🇪🇬 Alexandria
🇫🇯 Fiji
🇧🇩 Chittagong
🇰🇮 Kiribati
🇮🇶 Basrah
🇲🇻 The Maldives
🇨🇦 Vancouver
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Skegness
🇸🇨 Seychelles
🇫🇷 La Rochelle
🇮🇩 Surabaya
🇬🇾 Georgetown
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
🇨🇳 Shanghai

All underwater by 2035.
1. Sea level rise is accelerating and happening faster than expected.

James Hansen says we could hit 5m within decades.

Nobody knows for sure how quickly it will progress, but it will hit hard sooner rather than later.

Explore this thread for details: 👇
2. A key question: will these places be underwater numerous times during a given year, or permanently from 2035?

See this interactive map to get a sense of sea level rise and flooding for each city/island nation by 2030 and 2040:
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This is a fantastic megathread (over 70 tweets) of student climate protests #FridaysforFuture #ClimateStrike around the world. Every continent is represented. The protests in the US are growing. Apparently Italy had a million protesters. Retweet plz! This is what hope looks like!
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