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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What is going through the minds of corporate journalists who remain silent despite knowing we're heading for horrific 1.6-2°C of global warming by the 2030s which will threaten billions of people?
How many of them know emergency degrowth action could delay 1.6C-2C?

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We're heading for 1.5C in the 2020s and then 2C by around 2040 (give or take 9 years). 3C as early as 2048 is plausible.

Billions at risk by mid-century (or before).

How many journalists know this?
physicsworld.com/a/missing-1-5c…
There is an alternative to utterly destructive economic growth.

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positive actions to try to protect/restore ecosystems.

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2. A new study 'sounding the alarm on global ecosystem collapse if action is not taken urgently'.

U.S.-based researcher: "We're not yet at the level.. the paper shows in Australia, but we're moving in that direction." We can "still get our act together."

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BREAKING : scientists discover weaknesses in ice shelf holding back Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier suggesting it could shatter within the next 3 to 5 years
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'Scientists have discovered a series of worrying weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica’s most dangerous glaciers, suggesting that this important buttress against sea level rise could shatter within the next three to five years.' washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
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'Antarctica's Thwaites glacier could break free of the continent within 10 years, which could lead to catastrophic sea level rise and potentially set off a domino effect in surrounding ice'

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13 Dec
We have no carbon budget. We cannot make 100,000,000s of electric cars.

2°C by 2030-2050!

New cars means new roads means unsurvivable destruction of nature.

Walking, bikes, sailing ships, EVs for ambulances, etc? Yes.

The key: total social political economic transformation.🧵
1. We're in an extreme climate-extinction predicament and need to rethink and re-organise energy, manufacturing and the whole global economy. A just transition with a focus on well being will require some electric vehicles I'd imagine. But not cars.
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2. The onus is rich nations to step up. We need sustainable public transport.

'Just take the issue of money, for example, there was $100 billion promised by the rich countries... they actually inserted language saying ‘we are very sorry, we can’t do it..' genn.cc/blog/dr-saleem…
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12 Dec
🧵THREAD: educational institutions must now focus on

1. how economic growth will leave us facing 1.65-2°C global heating by 2040 give or take a decade

2. the horrific implications of such a rapid shift to 1.65-2°C

3. the alternative: immediate emergency degrowth system change
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We are likely heading for horrific 2°C by 2040-2052 according to scientists, though the 2030s is entirely possible as indicated by recent climate models.

Unchecked growth cannot avoid 1.6/1.7C by 2050 and may lead to up to 5.7C by 2090.

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2. Climate scientist Dr James Hansen warns of 2C by 2040 without immediate action and warns of dire consequences if 2C is not avoided.

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climate scientists: many in the scientific community agree the acceleration of the breakdown of our stable climate is obvious and confirms the shit we're in is as deep as the geologic time we're heading back into as we witness the unfolding horror of planetary collapse

media: 🤫
1. IPCC climate scientist: 'my hope is..our hearts will lead us back to our shared humanity, strengthening our resolve to save ourselves and our imperilled world'

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11 Dec
Forecast

2022: economic growth
2023: economic growth
2024: economic growth
2025: economic growth
2026: climate chaos at 1.5C
2027: economic growth
2028: economic growth
2029: economic growth
2030: economic growth
2031-45: hell on Earth at 1.6-2C

It doesn't have to be this way🧵
1. if global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, that will prevent "most of the tropics" from reaching intolerable wet-bulb temperatures.

phys.org/news/2021-03-g…
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Unchecked conomic growth would mean 1.6C-2C catastrophe in the 2030s/2040s.

esd.copernicus.org/articles/12/25…
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