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Plastic is in

- the air you breathe
- the water you drink
- the food you eat
- the wildlife you love
- the deepest oceans
- the soil
- the rain
- the atmosphere
- the Arctic
- your blood
- your shit
- Outer Space

And it's made from oil, gas and coal by the fossil fuel industry.
Fossil fuel energy and plastic production 'arise from the same problematic system, and both contribute to the same existential crisis humanity faces.'

99% of what goes into plastics are oil, gas and coal.

Plastics are simply fossil fuels in another form.
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Ben See
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Remember:

🇮🇳 India
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇳 China
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇺🇸 United States
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇯🇲 Jamaica
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇹🇳 Tunisia
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🇮🇷 Iran
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇩🇯 Djibouti
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇪🇬 Egypt

will all start to become uninhabitable by 2030.
The only way to react positively to the terrifying cataclysm of climate breakdown and ecological collapse is by joining in solidarity to achieve #ClimateJustice.

Vote and strike for decarbonisation by 2030.

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Emissions must be virtually completely stopped by 2029 otherwise we may well head for a desert planet and billions dead by 2045 - 2075. That's my opinion based on the science. Huge risk. Our governments are busy killing us.

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Ben See
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Remember:

🇮🇳 India
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇳🇵 Nepal
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇵🇸 Palestine
🇨🇳 China
🇦🇪 UAE
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇰🇼 Kuwait
🇩🇯 Djibouti
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇴🇲 Oman
🇮🇱 Israel
🇱🇾 Libya
🇮🇷 Iran
🇪🇬 Egypt

All partially uninhabitable by 2030.
The Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia are set to become 'so hot that human habitability is compromised' at 1.5°C - 2°C of global warming, between 2024 and 2036.

Unsurvivable humid heatwaves will soon hit regions where billions of people live today.mpg.de/10481936/clima…
We were on track for 2°C by 2036 back in 2014.

Five and a half years later, and things are now even worse: emissions are *accelerating* and there's no sign of them decreasing anytime soon.

We're going to smash past 2°C in about 15 years time.

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By the 2030s, Earth will have warmed ~2°C in the space of just 250 years.

It would appear that there is no record of ecosystems or species in the geologic past surviving this rate of change.

news.stanford.edu/news/2013/augu…
'most land animals will not be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt to the dramatically warmer climate expected by 2100. Many species face extinction, as a result.' theguardian.com/environment/20…
And ocean-dwelling species are disappearing from their habitats at twice the rate of those on land due to rapid climate change.

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