Capitalism is blocking ecological-climate emergency action for short-term profit maximization. The economy is endangering billions of lives.The UN says global food insecurity is on the horizon.
We must force transformative economic-political change & emergency action in the 2020s for decent survival.
2. "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…
If greenhouse gas emissions don't fall sharply in the next few years we'll be on target for hellish or even potentially unsurvivable conditions by 2050-2080:
⬇️ theconversation.com/just-how-sensi…
Corporate capitalism - just capitalism really - is causing Earth's major ecosystems to collapse.
4. Australia is a grim example ('signs of ecosystem decline and collapse all over the country') but see also the Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal, Antarctica...
To protect the ecosystems and biodiversity we need to survive, we must shift away from the economic growth of capitalism.
⬇️ ipbes.net/news/Media-Rel…
5. heat stress is disrupting a critical component of photosynthesis in tree species found in the Amazon
⬇️ news.mongabay.com/2021/03/study-…
6. There are signs global warming is now accelerating beyond out capacity to cope. Increased rates of ocean heating is a key one.
We must fairly reduce emissions to zero in rich countries asap, aiming for 2030 globally to try to avoid a horrific future. insideclimatenews.org/news/14012020/…
7. Banks have portfolios of investment that will lead to catastrophic 4°C.
UN Secretary General: 'humanity waging a “suicidal war” on nature..
global material use is projected to rise to 170-184 billion tonnes by 2050.'
The global ecological crisis is deep, complex. Only total economic system change will do.
9. 'Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS – known as forever chemicals – are in the blood of virtually every person on the planet. And they will only accumulate'. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
We must protect everyone by forcing profound change. Act now while it's still too late..
10. industrial chemicals in everyday products linked to increasing numbers of babies born with smaller penises; higher erectile dysfunction rates; declining fertility theintercept.com/2021/01/24/tox…
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It was a very different message from one of the authors Sir Robert Watson in May 2019:
'the good news is that there are many policies and technologies that will limit global temperature rise and address the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity'dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
'Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash.. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero? In our defence, the premise of net zero is deceptively simple – and we admit that it deceived us.'
1. My criticism is generally of state-corporate media systems not scientific institutions (any comment, @nowthisnews?), but surely AGU shouldn't be sharing this article?
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'Doubling pre-industrial CO2 levels has a 95% chance of warming the planet by at least 2°C... Scientists believe that beyond this threshold, climate change will lead to disastrous sea level rise and other extreme weather events.'
You know you're living in a world of state-corporate media propaganda when you click that just like today scientists and politicians in the 1980s were calling for huge decreases in greenhouse gas emissions within 12 years due to fears over global warming and it's still not news.
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'An international conference of scientists and senior politicians in Toronto last June called for a 20-per-cent decrease in emissions by the year 2005.'
Look in the supplementary materials of the peer-reviewed science discussed here and you may come to the conclusion that not only may 1.5C & 1.75C be impossible targets, but that 2C may be virtually impossible too.
Which statement best describes the current climate chaos situation?
a) avoiding +1.5°C may be possible
b) long-term warming expected from today's +500ppm CO₂-e is at least 2.5℃
c) temperature rises of 3- 4°C are likely now locked in
d) all of the above
Scientists differ on whether this statement is appropriate:
'The Australian Academy of Science says the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees has now slipped out of reach and is “virtually impossible”smh.com.au/environment/cl…
State-corporate media remain silent on this:
'Atmospheric scientists use CO₂-e as a convenient way to aggregate the effect of all the long-lived greenhouse gases..