Thread by @anlomedad

What @ClimateBen says is best available science, not fringe opinion. Sources below. And it doesn't happen suddenly AT the end of the 40s. It has already begun and worsens over time. It's a train wreck in slow motion with suffering and deaths and global destabilisation and fascism

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1335280700535222272

I'll add 4 sources here. The most important one is the video abstract of a paper by @EdwardByers , part 2/2. Because only this source shows how important global solidarity today is in alleviating poverty so as to lower the vulnerability in climate hotspots.

https://twitter.com/anlomedad/status/1296692551639093248

Or check out IPCC SR15 table 3.4. The figures in millions of people exposed or exposed and vulnerable are for the year 2050 on the respective warming pathways toward 2100. So in all likelihood we're already in for the 2˚ columns.
We can lower the impact only in global solidarity

@nature condensed the figures into 3 stills for their primer on climate impacts, "The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers" nature.com/immersive/d415…
But it doesn't show how global solidarity and alleviating poverty from today onwards can significantly lower vulnerability

Here's an interactive map to explore climate risks and hotspots:

https://twitter.com/EdwardByers/status/1321238486536626176

IMO, this info should be on newspapers' frontpage everyday as a constant warning where we're headed if we continue to hope for incremental efficiency improvements to our current system setup

Our governments /journalists can't / won't see the train-wreck-in-the-making. They, our neighbors, and our representatives only look in national bellybuttons where we won't find solutions to stave off global destabilisation and fascism on our way to 2050. We need a sense of🌍Us💚

Can the current system not handle the threats appropriately and in a spirit of global solidarity? No it can't. Look at the Covid fallout on societies in climate hotpsots and then: what does G20 to "help" them? Debt relief until June 2021 and IMF/Worldbank enforce privatisation🤬

It's not working. The intertwined dependencies and ideological paradigms are too stiff. Incremental improvement to current system setups is really not going to work. We need to pause the system globally at least temporarily to get the bulk of what's required done, incl solidarity

How will the system pause if the dependencies and paradigms are too stiff?

People will make it happen. Climate-aware people, citizens in all nations. Think Arab Spring, but in western societies. Think 1989. Think Belarus. Yes, we can. We'll do it with a knowledge revolution🌍✊

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Just yesterday, Will Steffen, @ClimateHuman and other cli-sci demand that societal collapse as consequence of climate change be discussed openly. Why? Read the🧵.It's already happening. But not reported as such in Western media nor debated in parliaments.
theguardian.com/environment/20…