Thread by @ClimateBen

Southeast Asia's Rainforests will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2027 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.

This study projects years of 'climate departure' (today's high emissions path).

Southeast Asia:
Manokwari, Indonesia 2020
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 2027
Singapore 2028
Jakarta, Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2029
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 2033

nature.com/articles/natur…

Southeast Asia:

-among the world’s major deforestation hotspots (bulk of deforestation in tropical humid & low-land forests)

-habitat destruction among highest & most severe in terms of biodiversity loss

-deforestation rate comparable to C. & S. America
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Deforestation in Southeast Asia is greater than previously recorded.

news.mongabay.com/2018/07/southe…

Corporate supply chains are seldom clearly explained, nevermind the overarching pressures of the global growth economy on all nations.

'logging and clear-cutting for food production, cash crops and agriculture are the main drivers of this forest loss'

ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science…

'Companies should, however, remain on high alert to try and keep their supply chains free of deforestation'.

Name the giant, exceedingly wealthy corporations responsible.

reuters.com/article/health…

'rainforest destruction continues unabated, not just in the South American Amazon, but also in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, to clear land for the cultivation of beef, timber, and oil crops like soy and oil palm'

Name the economic system to blame.harvardmagazine.com/2020/04/defore…

The Guardian may name destructive corporations from time to time, but is fiercely against structural political/economic changes. It simultaneously supports and is part of the whole corporate landscape. dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…

What makes us think we can trust newspapers funded by, and giving a voice to, powerful billionaires who are still investing in fossil fuels and want to geoengineer the planet? A corporate entity, explaining when forests will be finished off by corporations.theguardian.com/world/2013/may…

Major companies that operate in forested regions, or source products from them, must commit to ending deforestation for all their operations'

4 commodities—beef, soy, palm oil & wood—drive most tropical deforestation.

The problem: profit, not just demand.ucsusa.org/resources/what…

Global corporate capitalism has been buying up swathes of Asia's largest remaining rainforests.

'Global corporate capitalism didn't receive a BBC interview request, but the totally dominant economic system said in a statement that There Is No Alternative'.bbc.com/news/world-asi…

⚠️ 'Over the past 20 years, forests across Southeast Asia have collectively become a net source of carbon emissions due to clearing for plantations, uncontrolled fires, and drainage of peat soils.' cleantechnica.com/2021/01/21/for…

⚠️ 'new findings represent a tipping point because they suggest a dangerous feedback loop'

We're deep in the ecological-climate catastrophe danger zone, but global capitalism will not allow the emergency action that could prevent total calamity.

insideclimatenews.org/news/13012021/…