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@ClimateBen
Oct 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Economic growth is locking in

1. unsurvivable deforestation
2. >1.7°C global warming hell
3. chemical pollution threatening mammal fertility
4. extinction of 25%-75% of species

Media: more growth!
Governments: more growth!
IPCC: more growth!
UN: more growth!

6 million species:
1. There is an alternative: a postgrowth global economy which respects species and ecosystems that secures decolonization and decarbonization with immediate emergency degrowth action in rich countries for the benefit (and survival) of the many not the few.
2. Deforestation must end in the next few years for any hope of a chance of avoiding the near-term collapse of rainforests. This would be possible with international cooperation, but won't happen with the current economic system.

A second thread here:
3. 'multiple lines of evidence showing it will be virtually impossible to keep average global temperature rise to 1.5℃ or below this century, without...'
theconversation.com/failure-is-not…
but degrowth could still give a chance of avoiding or delaying 1.5C:
boell.de/en/2020/12/09/…
4. Chemicals in plastics causing fertility decline & threat of thermal infertility at >2°C. Thread:

5. 'a global climate mitigation scenario that explores the climate effects of limiting global production and consumptions and of envisioning a broader societal transformation to accompany these transformations to reach a good life for all.'

boell.de/en/2020/12/09/…

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4°C for the first time by 2045 would be utterly extraordinary. However, 4°C for the first time by 2095 looks more and more likely.

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Has capitalism left it too late to avoid unsurvivable 2/2.5°C of global warming and rising?

Yes.

Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating only political-economic systems changes may end biodiversity destruction and limit abrupt climate chaos?

Yes.
A lot has happened in the past 10 months.

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The factory food, fossil fuel, and arms industries are all thriving. Cement, plastics, steel.. This capitalist Extinction Economy is the worst-case scenario. It won't stop emissions. It has condemned us to essentially unsurvivable warming at 1.9-2°C and rising by 2029-41. 🧵
1. Mass media journalists are silent on 2°C by 2032-41 as warming hits 1.38-1.5C increasing by 0.35-0.45C per decade.

'12 months after the peak of the El Niño event and global temperatures are still exceptionally high'

Capitalsim won't 'redouble efforts'.cbc.ca/news/science/2…
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Nov 20, 2024
BREAKING: World Meteorological Organization issues Red Alert to humanity as accelerating global warming of 1.4-1.7°C and rising heralds essentially unsurvivable conditions within years not decades 🧵
1. The January –September 2024 global mean surface air temperature was 1.54°C (with a margin of uncertainty of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial average boosted by a warming El Niño event according to an analysis of six international datasets used by WMO.
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Nov 17, 2024
BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵
1. Time has run out to avoid 1.5°C (now sure to hit in the 2020s) and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. 1.75°C will be exceeded soon after with dire 2°C expected by 2030-2050

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env…
2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe.
Biodiversity destruction is a core part of the reality of industrial capitalism.
Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.🧵⬇️
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