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27 Oct, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Two degrees - which means mass death and mass extinction - will hit from 10 years time in a very high emissions scenario.

Emissions are very high and are projected to rise steeply towards ever more extreme record levels for years.

These journalists will be the death of us all.
1. 'more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit)..Think droughts, rising seas, mass extinctions..Humans never have lived in post-2-degree world..."If we start warming the planet way beyond what humans have ever experienced, God knows what will wait for us"edition.cnn.com/2015/04/21/opi…
2. 'in the very high emissions SSP5-8.5 scenario' the world is likely to pass 2C around '2041 (with a range of 2032 to 2053).'

Some scientists trust government pledges which delay 2C to from 2037 onwards.

No postgrowth system change = 2C by 2030s/40s.

carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
3. Carbon emissions headed for new record in 2023, says IEA:

'Governments.. allocated $380bn out of a total of $16tn in pandemic support to clean energy'

Net zero 2050 is climate delay.

We need to deal with emissions *and* the Devil's Bargain: aerosols. ft.com/content/abf39e…
4. State-corporate media are silent on the “Faustian bargain” of reducing aerosol emissions:

* IPCC says declining aerosol pollution will speed warming

* only methane reductions might help, but methane is rising wildly

* few articles ever explain this
insideclimatenews.org/news/15092021/…
5. Mass death/extinction due to the habitat destruction & toxic pollution of capitalism-imperialism-colonialism are here now at 1°C-1.5°C.

Scientists fear billions of people will face death and/or destruction at >2°C

Climate change barely mentioned here:cbc.ca/radio/thecurre…
6. Can humanity find out and accept, despite state-corporate media silence, that the problem is ECONOMIC GROWTH..?

Can humanity find out and accept, despite state-corporate media silence, that the alternative is ECONOMIC DEGROWTH..?

A postgrowth thread:
7. The occasional CNN article (this one from 2015) which downplays our 6th mass extinction predicament is part of the overall media silence, just like all those BBC articles about climate change events which don't mention climate change until paragraph 38.

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29 Oct
BREAKING: world's scientists show that without immediate, total system change the activities of the global growth economy will lead us to mass death and extinctions by around 2045
🧵 1. It's not too late to totally change the global system hurtling us into mass extinction (as >20,000 scientists warn) by rapidly expanding the growing movement for a postgrowth economy to avoid a dead world of ruined habitats, but media remain silent.ecowatch.com/warning-to-hum…
2. 10%-20% of plants, insects, fish, birds, and mammals face extinction at 1.6-2°C due to abrupt climate change, but more species are also threatened by the habitat destruction & pollution of the global growth-inequality economy.

We can act.

Info thread: ImageImage
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26 Oct
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…
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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.

Thread:
'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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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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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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