Thread by @ClimateBen

10 things every human should know:

1. 'Crop Yields Will Likely Plummet Due to Climate Change.'

2. 'Climate change poses a considerable threat to global food security, with potentially EXISTENTIAL economic, political, and social outcomes for humanity.'

3. 'While reports often reference a 1.5°C to 2°C “safe” level of warming that would avoid the most devastating impacts from climate change, agricultural systems...are IMMEDIATELY VULNERABLE TO ANY ADDITIONAL WARMING.'

(simultaneous global crop failure in the 2020s is now likely)

4. 'soil is eroding 10 to 100 times faster than it is being formed, a process accelerated by climate change impacts like drought and high-intensity rainfall.'

5. 'UNPRECEDENTED biodiversity loss— especially among pollinators, bacteria, and fungi in soils, and natural predators that control pests—is being fueled in part by climate impacts'

6. 'Climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity are linked in a complex feedback loop—a vicious cycle'

7. 'Ultimately, climate change will most severely impact those places least able to cope. Climate change will threaten years of development progress and thrust many vulnerable populations into poverty'

8. 'climate change is fraught with questions of global justice and inequality, especially as industrialized countries generated an overwhelming majority of historical CO2 emissions.'

9. 'researchers have linked the impacts of climate change to so-called “multiple breadbasket failure,” or the potential for widespread weather-related losses to major food-producing regions SIMULTANEOUSLY.'

10. 'the link between climate change and global instability often runs through our food systems.'

When the top, billionaire-chaired, Defense & National Security think tanks talk imminent global crop failure, it's time to listen.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_fo…

csis.org/analysis/clima…

Thread on global crop failures in the 2020s and beyond:

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1205577540531838977?s=19