scientists: primates are being driven to extinction by market demands leading to massive habitat loss through expanding industrial agriculture, large-scale cattle ranching, logging, drilling, mining, dam building, & road construction
media: let's keep this fine economic system
'Globally, agriculture is the principal threat, but secondary threats vary by region.'
🔺This isn't a 'climate' emergency, it's an economic growth emergency, a capitalism catastrophe ('there are also emerging threats, such as pollution and climate change')advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1…
Is food production primarily about feeding people (4.2 billion people undernourished, 20 - 45% of food produced is lost/wasted), or making vast amounts of money for a small group of ultra-wealthy people (there are 2,000 - 3,000 billionaires and 5 - 6 billion live in poverty)?
4.2 billion people have less than the $7.40 per day needed for:
- basic nutrition
- normal life expectancy
- a half-decent chance of seeing their kids survive their 5th birthday
We need agroecology, not destructive neoliberal industrial agriculture.
Global capitalism puts people/countries under extreme pressure.
🔺main threats to primates: habitat loss due to agriculture (76% of species), logging, wood harvesting (60%), livestock farming, ranching (31%), and direct loss due to hunting, trapping (60%) advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1…
Primates are essential to tropical rainforests, 'pollinating trees and dispersing seeds across these vital carbon stores.
'With global temperatures already about 1C higher than pre-industrial levels, Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef has been through three mass bleaching events in only five years'
1. Trees face extinction. 2. Ecosystems are unstable. 3. Crops are vulnerable. 4. Pollinators risk extermination. 5. Water supplies are shrinking. 6. Soils are dying. 7. Primates may not survive. 8. Forever Chemicals are in our blood.
Is global warming of +2C now unavoidable and likely to occur by 2029-2038 without emergency system change causing the demise of forests, putting world agriculture at high risk, and triggering 1.75-2.25m of sea level rise within decades leaving the world's major cities underwater?
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"we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible - if we do that, we will still break 2C, but it will be hundreds of years in the future."
Using a 1850 baseline (or 1750 baseline, my rough estimate) we might expect 2C between 2034 (2029) and 2052 (2047) in the highest emissions scenario, with a median year of 2043 (2038).
Now we know scientists are projecting severe climate disruption and ecosystem collapse by around 2038 which will make it hard for every human to live we can start making some informed decisions together regarding how to create rapid emergency worldwide system change for survival.
At 2C “you are having impacts on most people, impacts on the market, that make it hard for everyone to live"
⬇️ washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…
African, Southeast Asian, and South American Rainforests are now approaching, at, or beyond the point of collapse, and will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2025, 2027, and 2028 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.
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Corporations and governments are driving the destruction of Earth's tropical forests.
South American Rainforests will suffer from a totally new climate of unprecedented heat from 2028 onwards with staggering consequences for all life on Earth.
This 2013 study projects years of 'climate departure' on our current high emissions path:
La Paz Bolivia & Paramaribo Suriname 2028
Georgetown Guyana 2029
Bogotá Colombia 2033
Quito Ecuador & Caracas Venezuela 2034
Lima Peru 2038
Brasilia Brazil 2047 nature.com/articles/natur…
'Tropical forests are guardians against runaway climate change, but their ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is wearing down.' The Amazon, which accounts for +50% of the world’s rainforest cover, 'is on the verge of turning into a carbon source.'news.mongabay.com/2021/01/amazon…