3. 'economic growth is just not viable as a mechanism for future prosperity. In fact, it is associated with future cataclysm.'
The climate-extinction crisis requires profound economic system change now to protect billions of people and millions of species.cnbc.com/2021/02/19/deg…
4. 'Catastrophic, all-pervasive, climate breakdown is now inevitable.'
'It is just as vital that we act, and fast, to slash emissions, so that catastrophic doesn't become cataclysmic.'
2a. 'The scale and intensity of current land and water use for agriculture are not sustainable at many local levels. In some cases, this extends to the global level when just-in-time supply can break down, particularly if unforeseen drought drastically reduces crop production.'👇
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."
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?
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'
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…
🧵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.