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.
'2C somewhere between the early 2040s and early 2050s' (realistic projections); 2032-2039 possible.carbonbrief.org/analysis-what-…
4. Mass death of species has already begun at 1C-1.4C of warming, and will become far worse. It's painful to acknowledge this, but more painful and damaging to deny it or remain silent.
Not mentioning climate change until paragraph 17: typical downplaying.cbc.ca/radio/thecurre…
5. Billions of children, women, and men, especially in the Global South, oppressed & exploited by poverty, face atrocious dangers in the 2020s/30s and beyond. We must and can have total change to protect everyone.
6. IUCN: 20% of species in danger of extinction in 2020s-40s; scientifically undeniable we're on path of 6th major extinction frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
'western, white and elitist framing of reality' 'centuries of European colonization and fossil capitalism'frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
7. Mass mortality events have been becoming more frequent and increasing in magnitude for decades.
We must acknowledge mass deaths of the very recent past, present, and the near future at 1.6-2C to limit damage.
8. State-corporate media unsurprisingly ignore the fact that the whole global economy must be totally changed as this would threaten profits and extreme wealth. Abrupt climate change is a staggering threat, but the entire system must change for survival:
9. The US, Canada, and Russia are major food producers, as well as being the countries with most of the Northern Hemispheres permafrost which is beginning to thaw.
10. A rapid, postgrowth, political-economic-system-change transition to tackle utterly unsustainable overconsumption by the ultra-wealthy/affluent is possible. We must be informed why this is necessary, though. It means breaking media silence.
11. A 1998 American Museum of Natural History poll found 70% of 400 biology experts agreed Earth is in one of its fastest mass extinctions threating humans and 20%-50% of species by 2027:
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.