Thread by @ClimateBen

Remember:

* 37% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to food systems

* 10% of emissions are due to cement, steel & petrochemicals, (plus refining, fertilizer, glass)

* 5% due to planes

* ? % due to the world's militaries

Today's economic system can't fix this quickly enough.

We need to transform ourselves away from deadly corporate capitalism.

We need agroecology.

businessinsider.fr/us/food-system…

'there are some sectors, some uses of fossil fuels, that we do not yet know how to decarbonize.

Take, for instance, industrial heat: the extremely high-temperature heat used to make steel and cement.'

The economy is not set up to deal with this rapidly.
vox.com/energy-and-env…

Aviation: see this brief discussion.

https://twitter.com/MattHammington/status/1207062254199263237?s=19

'responsibility of the military for the climate crisis goes much further than their own use of fossil fuels...military deployment is about controlling oil-rich regions and defending the key shipping supply routes that...sustain our consumer economy...'

tni.org/es/node/22587

The scientific case for degrowth is robust.

See thread on how capitalism must be replaced (even the UN has reported on this):

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1172865563514871808?s=19

Also:

'hauling goods around by sea requires roughly 300 million tons of very dirty fuel, producing nearly 3 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, giving the international maritime shipping industry roughly the same carbon footprint as Germany.' m.phys.org/news/2018-12-c…