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🔺clay, gravel, sand & other construction materials 50%

🔺plants and trees used for food & fuel 25%

🔺extracted coal, oil & gas 15%

🔺metals 10%

The capitalist global economy now consumes 101 billion tons of material each year - more than twice the safe limit.
Along with the extraction of fossil fuels, the overuse of metals, building materials, and deforestation are driving the ecological and climate emergencies

"We risk global disaster if we continue to treat the world's resources as if they are limitless".

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Is even 50 billon tons really safe?

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Ben See
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Top 10 challenging moments researching ecological & climate calamity:

1. Realising the Amazon Rainforest is set to die within decades.

2. Understanding that liberal capitalism is killing off all butterflies.

3. Grasping that ice melt & future warming may be beyond our control.
4. Learning that the global economy is consuming 100 billion tons of material each year - 50 billion tons more than is sustainable.

5. Discovering there is no record of any species surviving the current rate of climate change, which will soon be the fastest in 65 milllion years.
6. Acknowledging that the oceans are being irreparably damaged in multiple ways, from acidification and deoxygenation to deep sea trawling and mining of the sea bed.

7. Seeing fossil fuel production plans.

8. Beginning to suspect that most species on Earth will soon be extinct.
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We're heading for a 'massive decline in the viability of food crops which are critical for human survival' by 2029 or soon after.

e360.yale.edu/features/what_…
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Ben See
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'extreme danger kicks in somewhere between 3C and 4C above pre-industrial levels. At this point, a series of interlocking impacts threatens to send food production into a death spiral... A food deficit could result in billions starving.'

Even 1.5C - 2.9C may well be enough.

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Agricultural systems are immediately vulnerable to any further warming.

There is plenty of peer-reviewed science suggesting 1.5°C - 2.9°C, which we're heading for by 2022-2044, will be enough to wreck food and water security, putting billions at risk.

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Monbiot is right to discuss the possible death of billions. It is also vital that we keep hold of a key reality: 2C is going to mean a highly dangerous world, and appalling climate chaos and vast human misery at 2-3C looks entirely possible.

Lynas' book will be interesting.

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