Thread by @ClimateBen

BREAKING : international team of scientists warns of global collapse of Earth's ecosystems 🧵

1. The multiple ecosystems collapsing across Australia and into Antarctica threatening our survival 'are a harbinger for environments globally.'

There still exist
positive actions to try to protect/restore ecosystems.

'We..cannot afford any further delay'theconversation.com/existential-th…

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."

pdx.edu/news/study-war…

3. Though this research was briefly news in Feb 2021 the story needs to keep breaking. Media silence means inaction.

Journalists could have put together the big picture of this collapse in 2020 or before. But even now corporate media arr silent. Thread: ⬇️

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1338160972712775684?s=20

4a. The ocean around the equator is already too hot for many species to survive with many fleeing to cooler water with likely profound implications for marine ecosystems.

'When the same thing happened 252 million years ago, 90% of all marine species died.'theconversation.com/marine-life-is…

4b. From Apr 2021: species moving towards the poles 'could result in ecosystem collapse—as was seen at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods—in which species go extinct and ecosystem services (such as food supplies) are permanently altered'theconversation.com/marine-life-is…