Editors and journalists are shamefully silent on the scientific projections that show without action on inequity billions of people exploited in poverty will face multiple high level food, water and energy risks from 2026-2035 due to ecological collapse and abrupt climate change.
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State-corporate media are busy protecting today's ultra-destructive global growth economy of which they are a key part and so only occasionally pay lip service to crucial ideas of climate justice.
It's not too late for fair, radical system change.
BREAKING: Earth's 8.7 million species call for immediate system change
60% of primate species are threatened with extinction, 75% are declining.
Main threat: habitat destruction due to logging/agriculture.
Hunting, road construction, oil & gas extraction, mining, pollution, disease, and climate change are also key threats. theconversation.com/60-of-primate-…
40-60% of tree species are threatened with extinction.
more than half of species are only found in one country, suggesting vulnerability to potential threats, such as deforestation from extreme weather events or human activity.
"If you leave us at 450ppm for long enough it will probably melt all the ice - that's a sea rise of 75 metres. What we have found is that the target we have all been aiming for is a guaranteed disaster".
Our trajectory: 450ppm by 2032.
1. "if we follow business as usual I can't see how west Antarctica could survive a century. We are talking about a sea-level rise of at least a couple of metres this century."
2. Rapid transition to a postgrowth economy via careful, emergency, climate justice action is required now. It'll be extraordinary if we avoid 2C by 2035-2050 but we must try to limit the damage and protect everyone. Today's growth economy must go.
Until all of us - our families, friends, and acquaintances - are aware that global warming of 2°C could cause major dislocations for 'civilization', and that this looks increasingly likely to happen by between 2036 and 2045, there will be no action to try to protect everybody.
Seagrass meadows can bury carbon in underwater sediments 40 times faster than tropical forests bury it in soil, providing one of the greatest contributions to the total carbon buried in ocean sediments. They are being destroyed at a rate of around 7% each year.
1. Kids deserve to be educated properly. Where is the explanation of capitalism's obvious role in the destruction of species and ecosystems?
2. '10 of the 72 known seagrass species (14%) are at an elevated risk of extinction, while 3 species qualify as endangered', however, though 'researchers listed 48 species (67%) in the "Least Concern" category, most of these species..are declining'
40%-60% of Earth's trees and other plants including crop species face extinction due to a combination of today's for-profit industrial agriculture, logging, road-building, construction, mining, etc, etc, and current & near-future abrupt climate change.