'Emergency System Change NOW.'
Why?
1. Land degradation will hit 79% by 2025
2. Antarctica risks collapse from 2030
3. Arctic sea ice will go by 2035
4. Coral reefs dead by 2040
5. Rainforests dying by 2045
6. 50% species will risk extinction: 2050
Give us screaming headlines.
Why?
1. Land degradation will hit 79% by 2025
2. Antarctica risks collapse from 2030
3. Arctic sea ice will go by 2035
4. Coral reefs dead by 2040
5. Rainforests dying by 2045
6. 50% species will risk extinction: 2050
Give us screaming headlines.
People in the Global South are dying now.
We need a new economy for ecological/climate justice.
* urbanization and industrial for-profit agriculture are killing the ecosystems needed for survival
* terrifying 2°C of global warming by 2038-2043 is likely
We need a new economy for ecological/climate justice.
* urbanization and industrial for-profit agriculture are killing the ecosystems needed for survival
* terrifying 2°C of global warming by 2038-2043 is likely
https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1360320416598925313?s=20
More than three quarters of the Earth’s land areas 'have lost some or most of their functions, undermining the well-being of the 3.2 billion people that rely on them to produce food crops, provide clean water, control flooding and more.'vice.com/en/article/ne9…
In 1978, the glaciologist John Mercer issued a warning: 'If people kept burning fossil fuels at the present rate, he wrote, then within 50 years they could set off the “rapid deglaciation” of West Antarctica'.
Recent evidence shows this is a real threat.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Recent evidence shows this is a real threat.
theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
"We know the Arctic is undergoing significant changes as our planet warms..
The prospect of loss of sea-ice by 2035 should really be focussing all our minds on achieving a low-carbon world as soon as humanly feasible."phys.org/news/2020-08-e…
The prospect of loss of sea-ice by 2035 should really be focussing all our minds on achieving a low-carbon world as soon as humanly feasible."phys.org/news/2020-08-e…
'By 2024 the untouched pristine moist forests in their original condition will disappear from Ivory Coast; by 2040, they will be gone from Madagascar, Angola & India, if current rates of deforestation & forest degradation are kept'
(Worse if 2C by 2030s?)
ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/20…
(Worse if 2C by 2030s?)
ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/20…
'Scientists estimate that by mid-century, as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species could face extinction.'
mashable.com/2017/02/26/bio…
mashable.com/2017/02/26/bio…
"there are extreme warming scenarios where 55% of the species would be lost from intact habitats. And note that deforestation also increases global warming. It is a double whammy against biodiversity."
33 - 55% of species to face extinction by 2050s/2060s.amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/21…
33 - 55% of species to face extinction by 2050s/2060s.amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/02/21…
We face 90% of Earth's soils becoming degraded by the 2040s. aljazeera.com/economy/2019/1…
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