'5.2 °C above the pre-industrial level at present rates of increase would likely result in mass extinction comparable to that of the major Phanerozoic events, even without other, non-climatic anthropogenic impacts'
BREAKING: the percentage of primate species threatened with extinction has risen from 60% in 2017 (75% in decline) to 66% in 2021 (85% in decline) 🧵
🧵1. Paul A. Garber and Alejandro Estrada, primate conservation researchers and co-authors on a 2017 article on primate extinction.
'Much has changed over the past 4 to 5 years, and none of the changes benefit primate population persistence.' inverse.com/science/primat…
🧵2. 'Deforestation of tropical rainforest continues, as large agribusiness companies and governments continue to convert natural habitats to monocultures and fragmented and polluted landscapes for products that are consumed by people in a smaller number of rich nations.'
Might 2°C calamity by around 2036-2045 or soon after still be avoided with the correct actions?
We should all be talking about this, but journalists and editors remain silent (particularly on a much feared aerosol 'termination shock') so people generally have no idea.
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…
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.
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.
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…