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6 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Remember:

emissions must peak-&-plummet now
deforestation must stop now
plastic overproduction must stop now
pesticide use must stop now
industrial fishing must stop now
industrial agriculture must stop now
soil destruction must stop now

Extraordinary change is coming.
1.
Slash emissions to zero by 2025-30 while it's still too late.

2.
Forests are in the tipping point danger zone.

Your homework: spend hours of your lives looking for articles which back up the rest of the points, and then complete the thread yourselves. 💚

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8 May
Did you know the tropics seem set to start becoming uninhabitable from as early as 2026 with the majority of Earth's species facing a struggle for survival in extreme conditions as ecosystems collapse due to habitat destruction & climate change during capitalism? Rise up now, etc
'The tropics could become uninhabitable if we don’t limit global warming to less than 1.5°C'.

newscientist.com/article/227035…

Scientists expect 1.5°C to hit by 2026-2032, but with emergency, climate justice, degrowth, economic system change action it could yet be delayed. Organise now.
The tropics contain the majority of Earth’s biodiversity: their terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems hold >75% of all species. Concerted local, national and international actions are urgently required to prevent a collapse of tropical biodiversity.nature.com/articles/s4158…
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6 May
WARNING: grotesque irony

You'll pardon me for being blunt here, but the article itself is full of uncritical, dangerous bullshit.

Thread.

dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
1. 'The impacts of the climate emergency are now so obvious, only the truly deluded still deny them.'

No. Corporate media like The Guardian still omit the words 'climate change' from articles, even those on extreme weather. This fuels cognitive dissonce & subtle forms of denial.
2. 'a 45% drop is needed to avoid climate catastrophe'

No. That figure relies on extraordinary assumptions (carbon feedback cycle, climate sensitivity, future technologies, possible acceleration of warming). We need 45-100% by 2025-30 and even that may not allow us to avoid 2C.
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1 May
The likely destruction of both the Amazon Rainforest and summer Arctic sea ice by 2035 heralding ecological and climate chaos as species vanish and global crop failures loom threatening decent human survival is the biggest story in history according to everyone except the media.
1. Likely, but not 100% certain..

It's not too late to take emergency individual-collective action to limit the damage by changing consumption & production while organising for political system change away from economic growth & corporate crimes.

Ideas:
2. Until media conviey these extraordinary threats and the public grasps them, we are unlikely to see the extraordinary international cooperation now needed.

The Amazon Rainforest :
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30 Apr
The Amazon Rainforest will enter into a sustained death spiral by the 2030s if deforestation isn't completely stopped in the next 48 months.
Amazon destruction surged 21% in 2020.

At that rate the rainforest 'will reach a tipping point in 10 to 20 years, after which it will enter a sustained death spiral'.

"It is mandatory to reach zero deforestation in all of the Amazon in less than 5 years".mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id…
“We are scientists who have been studying the Amazon for many decades. Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now"

TO DO
reforestation
raise quality of life in Amazonian cities
develop bioeconomy
stop agribusiness
news.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-ti…
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30 Apr
A recent peer-reviewed scientific paper showed the carbon 'budgets' for 1.5C, 1.75C, and 2C are either 'tiny' or else already at zero (virtually zero for 2C).

We may yet limit the damage, but only if we acknowledge that the planet we think we're living on no longer exists.
1. See here for details:
2. We're living through an Ecological Catastrophe.

It's not too late to take emergency individual-collective action to change consumption and production, organising for political and economic system change away from growth & corporate crimes.

Ideas here:
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30 Apr
Abrupt climate change will produce permanent catastrophic consequences in the tropics by the 2020s, and in the rest of the world by the 2040s according to the 2013 peer-reviewed study which was the first to integrate all prior scientific research.

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1.
'From now on, efforts to reduce climate-change will be efforts to reduce the extent of the catastrophe, not to prevent the catastrophe.'

It will neve be too late to strive to limit the damage. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/40897…
2.
Ecological and societal disruptions as climates shift beyond historical analogues

Climate moves to a state continuously outside bounds of historical variability:

2047 (±14yrs) business-as-usual scenario

2069 (±18yrs) emissions stabilization scenario
nature.com/articles/natur…
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