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26 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
even now, when scientists have clearly communicated that the economy will most likely tip us over dire 2°C of global warming as extinction catastrophe accelerates by 2037-2052, people are clutching at the poisoned security blanket of capitalism

please let go of the myths

please
1. POST-GROWTH

There is an alternative.

Thread on the danger species are in, and possibilities for total change:
2. END THIS VIOLENCE

I invite you to explore a recent @caitoz article and explore the links.

It's very well done - concise and clear!

caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/capitalism-i…
3. CHANGE IS OBVIOUSLY POSSIBLE

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4. MEDIA SILENCE

Most remain unaware:

modest-mitigation SSP2-4.5 scenario: >2C around 2052 (range 2037-2084)

high emissions SSP3-7.0 scenario: >2C around 2046 (range 2035-2062)

very high emissions SSP5-8.5 scenario: >2C around 2041 (range 2032-2053).

carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
5. MEDIA SILENCE ON EXTINCTION

We need to shift to a postgrowth economy now.

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Ben See Profile picture
25 Oct
worth knowing...

1. there's a new scientific consensus: continued economic growth means 1.5°C-2.5°C of crop-destroying global warming & likely mass extinction in 25 years

2. a new postgrowth economy can be created if the public is informed

3. we must support independent media
1. POST-GROWTH
focus on human needs/well-being: reduce inequality, ensure living wages, shorten working week to maintain full employment, guarantee universal access to public healthcare, education, transportation, energy, water, affordable housing

Threads:
2. 6th mass extinction

There's no good reason to think continued economic growth can end habitat destruction or pollution. Over 20,000 scientists put their names to a 2017 paper saying we're in a mass extinction with economic growth a key problem.

Thread:
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Ben See Profile picture
25 Oct
icymi: by 2030 or 2040 Earth's climate (temperature _and_ precipitation) is expected to resemble that of the mid-Pliocene, going back more than 3 million years in geologic time, as Arctic sea ice vanishes and sea levels rise rapidly towards levels threatening most major cities 🧵
70% of climate change impact studies show declines in crop yields by the 2030s. Half the studies show horrific 10–50% declines.

A rapid emergency postgrowth transition is our only real option to try to avoid 1.75°C-2°C and >450 ppm by the 2030s.

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'sea level rise may happen faster than current models project.

The IPCC projects that the sea level will rise about a meter by the century’s end, but this study finds that estimate to be conservative.'

IPCC now accepts >1.5m by the 2090s is possible.

news.mongabay.com/2021/02/new-st…
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Ben See Profile picture
23 Oct
BREAKING: by 2030 Earth's climate is expected to resemble that of the mid-Pliocene going back more than 3 million years in geologic time
We need postgrowth emergency action to limit the damage from abrupt climate change during 20th/21st century capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism.

Explore these threads for more details:

'climates by 2150 could compare to the warm and mostly ice-free Eocene..' (50 million years ago)

"We are moving toward very dramatic changes.."

'whether humans and the flora & fauna we are familiar with can adapt to these rapid changes remains to be seen'phys.org/news/2018-12-h…
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Ben See Profile picture
22 Oct
Remember:

1. we're at staggering >417 ppm of atmospheric CO₂

2. aerosols are temporarily hiding the true extent of global warming

3. emissions & rainforest fragmentation are reaching record levels

4. 2°C in the 2030s looms

Ignoring reality makes emergency action impossible.
Scientists are dangerously underestimating the
impact of reducing sulfate aerosol pollution.

Dr James Hansen expects warming rate 'to double in an “acceleration that can be traced to aerosols"

That 'could lead to.. 2 degrees Celsius by 2040'.insideclimatenews.org/news/15092021/…
'Deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably.'

Accelerated forest fragmentation, at a higher rate than expected, is leading to a critical increase in tropical forest edge area with large amounts of carbon released at those edges.
ufz.de/index.php?en=3…
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Ben See Profile picture
15 Oct
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:
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Ben See Profile picture
14 Oct
Remember

1. industrial agriculture
2. deforestation
3. chemical, plastic & light pollution
4. road construction
5. mining
6. industrial fishing
7. logging
8. oil & gas extraction

Media are silent on how economic growth is hurling us into a mass extinction of 75%-90% of species.
Economic growth: a catalyst of overconsumption.

'if consumption continues at the current rate for the next several decades, it can trigger a full or almost full extinction of humanity'

An extraordinary conclusion, but then again this is a mass extinction.en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconsu…
"If we continue business as usual and we see the same rates of biodiversity loss we've seen over the past 100 to 500 years, we will see the magnitude of loss that was characteristic of the dinosaurs dying out - in a couple of centuries, maybe sooner."bbc.com/news/science-e…
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