Thread by @ClimateBen

BREAKING: as both temperatures & CO2 emissions soar towards record levels by 2023 and industrial trawling and mining wreck the sea bed, climate scientists fear the ocean will soon be unable to provide Earth's largest long-term carbon store

🧵1. Abrupt climate change has 'a "worrying" effect' on the ocean's ability to lock away carbon. If global temperatures increase to levels predicted, the ocean 'will not be able to provide what is currently Earth's largest long-term carbon store'. bbc.com/news/science-e…

🧵2. We're heading for 1.6°C-2°C by the 2030s as corporations d governments openly plan together to increase fossil fuel production in the 2020s. We can't survive the ocean destruction being driven by economic growth. A postgrowth economy is the only way.cnbc.com/2021/07/20/co2…

🧵3. We will hit 1.5°C for the first time any year now. We are in danger of 2°C by 2032-2051 and look unlikely to avoid 2.5°C in either the short or long term. We must aim for degrowth, but media like liberal capitalist Guardian remain silent, of course.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

🧵4. Bottom trawling is a practice used by commercial fisheries around the world in which a large heavy net is dragged along the ocean floor to scoop up everything in its path resulting in long-term, far-reaching consequences in the deeper ocean and beyond.news.mongabay.com/2014/05/trawli…

🧵5. We'd need profound political and economic system change to stop destructive deep sea mining, industrial fishing, and greenhouse gas emissions as well as deforestation, logging, road building, pesticide use, etc

Degrowth is the answer ignored by media.newscientist.com/article/mg2513…

6. 'Deep sea mining is a growing subfield of experimental seabed mining that involves the retrieval of minerals and deposits from the ocean floor found at depths of 200 meters or greater.'

This must not be allowed to expand.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_…