1. tropics becoming uninhabitable 2. a million species extinct 3. unsurvivable heat 4. corals 90% dead 5. water scarcity hell 6. global food insecurity 7. dire permafrost thaw 8. risk of climate feedback doom
Only a postgrowth economy can aim to avoid this.🧵
🧵1. “On our current trajectory, we are talking about climate change endangering roughly half of all plants and all insect species..
economic growth is just not viable as a mechanism for future prosperity. In fact, it is associated with future cataclysm.”cnbc.com/2021/02/19/deg…
🧵2. The most optimistic IPCC scenario based on a growth economy? Global temperature hits 1.6°C by 2050 then drops back by 2100. Scientists don't think this will happen.
🧵4. Growth economics is driving toxic pollution & habitat destruction such as deforestation to extreme levels. For-profit industrial agriculture/fishing is wrecking the land & oceans. Degrowth is the way to limit warming and stop other non-climatic damage.
🧵5. There is no guarantee degrowth would avoid 1.6°C at this point, but studies suggest it's a possibility unlike with growth which is driving ecosystem collapse and likely results in 2.5C-5C.
1. corals: 90% dead 2. unsurvivable heat 3. water scarcity hell 4. Antarctica collapses 5. global food insecurity 6. a million species extinct 7. tropics becoming uninhabitable 8. high risk of climate feedback doom
Only a postgrowth economy can avoid this now.🧵
🧵1 . Scientists agree: economic growth will make the extinction crisis of habitat destruction, toxic pollution and abrupt climate change difficult for humanity to survive decently, or perhaps even at all
🧵2. Mass media are virtually completely silent on what is essential for survival: rich countries rapidly and fairly degrowing their economies to aim for survival.
Today at >417 ppm of CO2 it seems a clear majority of climate scientists think we'll very likely hit 1.6°C-2.5°C hell by mid-century followed by unthinkable 2.1°C-4.6°C by the 2090s according to the IPCC scenarios which are rooted in economic growth-as-usual. We need degrowth. 🧵
1. “On our current trajectory, we are talking about climate change endangering roughly half of all plants and all insect species..
economic growth is just not viable as a mechanism for future prosperity. In fact, it is associated with future cataclysm.”cnbc.com/2021/02/19/deg…
Please report that according to the IPCC, the global growth economy will cause extinctions at 1.5°C to 2°C of warming by 2032 then 1.6°C-2.4°C by 2050, but a new postgrowth paradigm could prevent such horror.
This silence is deadly.
Love from,
Ben
1. '6% of insects, 8% of plants and 4% of vertebrates are projected to lose over half of their climatically determined geographic range for global warming of 1.5°C, compared with 18% of insects, 16% of plants and 8% of vertebrates for global warming of 2°C'ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/s…
2. We can't rule out 2.5°C-3°C by 2050. People must be informed.
* 1.5C by 2027-2035
* 2C in the very high emissions SSP5-8.5 scenario: range of 2032 to 2053
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.