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.
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.'
2. 'Planetary boundaries represent thresholds in major Earth system processes that are sensitive to human activity and control global-scale habitability and stability
critical oxygen thresholds are being approached at rates comparable to other.. processes'
An amazing news story totally ignored by state-corporate media: according to even the most conservative and optimistic consensus assumptions there had to be 'immediate action' years ago at the very latest with emissions peaking and falling by now to avoid utterly catastrophic 2C.
BREAKING: scientists warn we're beginning to feel the effects of a geologically instantaneous 21st century shift into extreme and unsurvivable conditions 🧵
1. 'We are starting to feel the effects of transitioning to a hothouse climate (ΔT +4-5 °C) in a geological instant'
The global change happening now is potentially like the Permian extinction which occurred in just a few centuries.
2. "In my view it is impossible to survive that sort of change (4°C by 2100). That is beyond human physiology. But that is the trajectory we are on now.. No matter what we do with all the whiz-bang technology.. physiologically we cant survive that."
Even establishment climate scientists who organise consensus views (and often downplay catastrophe) show we can anticipate 2.1°C by (2035- ) 2050 at which point impacts become too severe to manage.
Scientists now know today's capitalist economic system can't limit global warming to well below 2°C meaning human adaptation will not be feasible as the conditions for modern agriculture disappear forever in the coming years. Most scientists accept this. Some aren't ready yet. 🧵
Officially, CO2 emissions would have needed to be reduced by a staggering 70% in the 2020s to limit global warming to well below 2°C (when CDR fails). This is obviously not feasible: economic growth has left us with record high emissions approaching 2025.