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10 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
How might we avoid a global extinction tsunami at horrific 1.5°C - 2°C from 2029? 🧵
1. 'Prominent economists' have explained the need for a "post-growth" plan which necessarily opposes capitalism's pursuit of endless growth, the root cause of today's 'obscene inequality, impending ecological collapse, and climate breakdown.'
salon.com/2021/10/09/sol…
2. 40%-60% of primate, tree, amphibian, and invertebrate pollinator species already face annihilation today due to the ever-expanding destructive activities of the global growth economy. It's not just about abrupt climate change.

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3. Immediate emergency postgrowth action to radically and totally transform the global economy away from pollution and habitat destruction & fragmentation into a post-capitalist endeavour could yet slow us down and push back 1.5°C by decades or even theoretically maybe avoid it.
4. 25%-50% of species seemingly face functional extinction from the 2040s, however, postgrowth action in the 2020s offers an alternative future. Though an extinction tsunami of some sort appears unavoidable, we can certainly aim to limit the damage.
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5. Hitting 1.5°C for the first time by 2022-2025 looks increasingly likely.
dumptheguardian.com/environment/20…
6. We could hit a 2C trend from around 2034-38, and with emissions projected to rise to record levels in 2022-25, a one-off 2C year from 2029 can't be ruled out as far I can see.

(Using a 1750 baseline to calculate makes 2C by 2029 quite plausible imo).

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Ben See Profile picture
10 Oct
For decades scientists have been saying a vast degradation of habitat and extinction of species is happening on a catastrophically short timescale and effects will fundamentally reset the future evolution of Earth's biota.

BBC News has been all but silent.bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
'Once-common species will be extinct, or exist only in human-made environments like zoos or private breeding colonies..such as the lemur sanctuary in the Caribbean that Virgin boss Richard Branson proposed last year'

We get scraps of hypercapitalist dross.bbc.com/future/article…
This from the BBC's education section was just a few months ago.

Disgusting.
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Ben See Profile picture
8 Oct
Are we all aware 50% of Earth's wondrous species necessary for human survival are in the shadow of mass extinction within 25 years as the endless growth of toxic industrial capitalism thrusts us towards a contaminated 1.5°C Earth by 2027 or is the propaganda too slick for us? 🧵
1. Immediate emergency postgrowth action to radically and totally transform the global economy away from pollution and habitat destruction & fragmentation into a post-capitalist endeavour could yet slow us down and push back 1.5°C by decades or even theoretically maybe avoid it.
2. Scientists say we're in a profound climate-extinction crisis.

Postgrowth action for economic system change is achievable. Positive quirks of fate are a real possibility.

1.5°C-2°C horror in the 2030s may be avoided, IF we warn of the danger.

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Ben See Profile picture
7 Oct
BBC Fact Check

BBC: Extinction Rebellion says life on Earth is in crisis and facing a mass extinction

REALITY: Scientists say life on Earth is in crisis and facing a mass extinction, as does Extinction Rebellion

bbc.com/news/uk-486079…
'Scientists have warned that we are entering the sixth mass extinction, with whatever we do now likely to define the future of humanity. The other five mass extinctions include the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs and many species in the sea.' bbc.com/news/science-e…
'going past 1.5C is dicing with the planet's liveability..

the 1.5C temperature "guard rail" could be exceeded.. in 2030

We can stay below it - but it will require urgent, large-scale changes from governments and individuals' bbc.com/news/science-e…
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Ben See Profile picture
5 Oct
Very few people seem aware that we only have about three or four years left before Earth's species start being smashed by catastrophic 1.5°C of global warming in the context of toxic pollution, deforestation, etc.

Perhaps our media and education systems are...utterly inadequate?
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Immediate postgrowth action to radically transform the global economy into a post-capitalist endeavour could yet slow us down and push back 1.5°C by decades or even theoretically perhaps avoid it, though scientists say using a 1750 baseline we already exceeded 1.5°C in 2020.
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the climate emergency 'is about to get much worse unless we face the uncomfortable reality that we must fundamentally transform our economy, our energy system..our lifestyles, to avoid dangerous climate change'

Postgrowth limits damage. Danger is here.phys.org/news/2021-08-g…
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5 Oct
Editors have been shamefully silent on this incredible story about the UN Food and Agriculture Organization declaring that ecological-climate disasters are already 'jeopardizing our entire food system' as we're hurtled towards 1.5°C by 2025 and 2°C by 2040.news.un.org/en/story/2021/…
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'the chance of reaching 1.5°C of heating by 2025 has “roughly doubled” compared to last year’s predictions and now sits at 40%.. surpassing that target will usher in climate catastrophe, triggering mass species dieoffs' gizmodo.com/were-speeding-…
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Between now and 2040, James Hansen 'expects the climate’s rate of warming to double in an “acceleration that can be traced to aerosols.”

That acceleration could lead to total warming of 2 degrees Celsius by 2040'.

2°C means global calamity.

insideclimatenews.org/news/15092021/…
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4 Oct
Ongoing crimes against humanity & nature in all but name should be all over the news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Because they're not, we may expect utterly horrific 1.75°C-2°C of global warming, sudden extinctions of species, and huge declines in crop yields all by the 2030s.
We never hear corporate journalists talking about this reality. Wonder why?

'the destruction will see some species become extinct before they were ever recorded'

Wildfires, 2019-2020

cbc.ca/radio/thecurre…
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