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Remember:

1. Arctic ice is melting
2. Butterflies are dying
3. Antarctica is collapsing
4. Lakes are shrinking
5. Air is poisonous
6. Birds face extinction
7. Corals won't survive
8. Methane is escaping
9. Forests are fragmenting
10. Crops are failing

Why isn't this on TV news?
The Arctic:

1. 95% of old ice gone
2. ice free by 2021-2031
3. fastest warming place on Earth
4. no evidence sea ice will recover
5. heatwaves 20°C more than usual
6. vast wildfires mean carbon bursts
7. melting is destabilising the planet
8. permafrost collapse is irreversible
'almost all species could eventually be consumed by a changing climate and habitat loss.' ⚠️

independent.co.uk/news/science/c…
Antarctica:

1. melt rate now accelerating
2. Christmas Eve record melt: 15%
3. irreversible collapse is inevitable
4. rapid deglaciation of West Antarctica is set to begin by 2027 with staggering consequences for humanity and all life on Earth
5. sea level rise disaster by 2035
'Lakes are shrinking across the world. We have; Lake Huron, Caspian sea, Baikal Lake, Lake Victoria, Ojos del Salado, Blue Lake and other Lakes. But the most affected is Lake Chad.'

~ @the_ecofeminist

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills over half a million under 5 year olds every year. 💔

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58…
Unlike anything recorded in modern natural history:

40% of North America's bird species are currently heading for extinction by 2029. ⚠️

therivernewsroom.com/2019/09/26/wha…
Coral reefs will be wiped out when global average temperature rise goes over 2°C by 2035-2045.

Scientists concede this is unavoidable.

🔺'1.5C warming will see coral reefs declining by around 80% whereas 2C would see more than 99% wiped out'

independent.co.uk/environment/cl…
"Scientists in Siberia have discovered an area of sea that is 'boiling' with methane, with bubbles that can be scooped from the water with buckets."

"unlike anything they had seen before" ⚠️

newsweek.com/methane-boilin…
In 2017, scientists showed that unstoppable collapse of world tropical rainforests due to fragmentation was maybe just several years away, even with relatively minor deforestation.

⚠️ Now it's 2020, and scientists say that fragmentation is *increasing*.

phys.org/news/2018-02-t…
But worse is soon to come.

Global crop failures would appear to be imminent.



⚠️ Please read this serious thread and tell everyone you know that we need solidarity for survival in the face of ecological collapse: 👇
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