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Over 5000 of the world’s frogs, salamanders, and caecilians are in danger of extinction.

nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/0…
Amphibians are in steep decline due to:

- habitat destruction
- disease
- contaminants
- climate breakdown
- new deadly pathogens

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Amphibian Emergency:

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Ben See
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We have passed the point of no return on global warming and we can’t reverse the effects:

🔺full impact of climate change underestimated - scientists haven't taken into account carbon emitted from soil.

🔺“I think this is catastrophic for humanity"

1/7
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'A large and poorly understood component of global warming is the terrestrial carbon cycle feedback to the climate system'.

🔺'a global-scale, microbially mediated feedback could be very difficult, if not impossible, to halt.'

Oct 2017

2/7
science.sciencemag.org/content/358/63…
Scientists' 'ability to evaluate how much carbon goes into the soil, and where it ends up, is made difficult because it's not possible to measure directly.

"In the soil, we don't know how things are working because, if you like, it's as clear as mud"
3/7
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Ben See
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Imagine:

1. No bees in the flowers.
2. No birds in the trees.
3. No butterflies in the meadow.
4. No whales in the seas.
5. No worms in the soil.
6. No lizards in the sand.
7. No corals in the Ocean.
8. No crops from the land.

Can't?

Soon you may not have to.
Why such ecological horror?

Racism
Capitalism
Imperialism
Colonialism
Corporate power
White supremacy
Misogyny
State-corporate media
Fascism
Liberalism
Nationalism
Consumer culture
War
Poverty
Economic injustice
Billionaires
Industrial agriculture
Petrochemicals
Fossil fuels
etc
What can we do about the Ecological-Climate Emergency?

Discover what Climate Justice is all about, then join collective action to create a new politics & new economics.

Justice👇


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Action👇
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Ben See
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The world’s worms are being killed off by industrial agriculture.

1/8
dw.com/en/earthworm-n…
Modern farming practices have killed off 4 out of 5 worms that once lived on farms.

'If you dreamed up plots to quietly undermine civilization, few could be more diabolical than destroying its foundation — the soil life' we need to grow food.

2/8
thedailybeast.com/the-coming-wor…
There has been an 83% decline in earthworm biomass under industrial agricultural methods (tillage and chemical fertilizers) as compared to agroecological methods.

3/8
mdpi.com/2571-8789/2/2/…
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Okay, folks, I promised a thread about
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I've been thinking about these things a lot recently because of a paper I'm revising, so let's dive in. (1/32)
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