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Jul 23 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is now explicitly pointing to actions such as moving away from the idea of economic progress based solely on GDP growth as we risk extinction calamity - pehaps even rapid, fully completed mass extinction by between 2075 and 2150. 🧵
1. Industrial growth capitalism is killing the living world due to deforestation, pollution, disease, abrupt climate change, etc

Experts have been saying for years there's now a profound risk of fully completed mass extinction by the 22nd/23rd century:🧵⬇️
2. State-corporate media won't explain that the rapid extinction of 30% - 70% of Earth's species this century due to the wealthy's overuse and abuse of resources is a real possibility because to do so would threaten state-corporate power.

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3. Report from 2021:

"a profound collective shift of individual and shared values concerning nature - such as moving away from the conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth, [..] not overshooting biophysical and social limits"

We can act.eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
4. Economic growth gives 2.2°C-5°C of warming by 2075. Rapid warming of around 5°C puts Earth's species in mass extinction territory even without other non-climatic impacts.

Join together to end the corporate media silence that blocks public understanding.nature.com/articles/s4146…
5. The world's experts on extinction warn of unthinkable destruction by 2075 - 2200.

State-corporate media silence is near-total.

We can all contribute to economic system change as we also quit flying and drive only if compelled by circumstances.

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6. Utterly ignored by state-corporate media:

the major 2022 IPCC AR6 report which includes a great deal of discussion of degrowth and warns emissions must stop rising this year to avoid 1.5°C/2°C (in theory).

But economic growth has emissions rising.

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Jul 25
Scientists are pointing to ideas for a new global economy because GDP growth means unthinkable global horror: mass deaths and widespread extinctions with 1.5°C-2°C average warming certain by the 2030s, and far, far worse at 2°C- 2.5°C by the 2050s expected by most scientists. 🧵
1. Fifty million face famine today with the current economic growth system.

We can slow down cars towards a complete phase out within years and stop flying in an attempt to achieve the necessary extraordinary system change.

IPCC & IPBES say rethink.
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2. Billions of people are suffering now and will be at high risk of danger/destruction/death by the 2030s/2040s unless we shift away from GDP growth. Dealing with emissions and aerosols plus deforestation & pesticides by 2023 requires system change actions.
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Jul 24
The Arctic is descending into climatological and ecological uncertainty. 🧵
1. It's difficult for models to:

*pin down how the Arctic is changing

*predict how changes will influence the larger climate system

Potential for the climate system to reach a tipping point, in which warming kicks off rapid change is 'a major concern'.wired.com/story/why-the-…
2. “I don't think it's really precisely known—if these tipping points exist—what level of warming would trigger such rapid changes,” says Michael Previdi, a climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University'

wired.com/story/why-the-…
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Jul 24
What mass media journalists won't tell you: emissions should've begun to peak and plummet by 2015 but as they continue to rise we now face horrific abrupt climate change impacts within 1.5 to 15 years as smashing 1.5°C of global warming plays dice with the liveability of Earth.🧵
1. The world's extinction experts warn we risk the staggering calamity of fully completed mass extinction within a century or two. Scientists are urging immediate system change actions. Governments refuse.

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2. We'll very likely hit 1.6°C - 2°C by 2037. Economic growth and short-term profit maximization of global capitalism are keeping emissions high. We face a 2.1°C - 4°C nightmare in ~40 years.

We can act for a radical alternative to industrial growth.

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Jul 23
Let's separate rapid mass extinction, abrupt climate change & the accelerating collapse of Earth's major ecosystems from all discussion of The Economy. It's not like they could be connected or anything. 🧵
1. We must support independent media and break the silence. Scientists say human activities are behind habitat destruction and pollution but will rarely if ever point the finger at the economy despite the connection being utterly obvious.

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2. 'The study "shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event.."If it is allowed to continue..our species itself would likely disappear early on".

Scientists point to economic system change. Media? Quiet.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-2…
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Jul 23
The real job of corporate journalists is to report reality in a way that doesn't disrupt the economic growth and short-term profit maximization that's rapidly wrecking the living Earth.
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Jul 23
An amazing news story virtually ignored by state/corporate media: scientists are pointing to immediate system change actions because emissions must peak this year to avoid catastrophic 1.5°C/2°C of global warming but economic growth means emissions are surging apocalyptically. 🧵
1. Emissions need to fall immediately for both 1.5°C & 2°C.

Extinction looms.

The public deserves to know scientists are pointing to system change action.

Where are the mass media journalists & editors?

Won't the BBC follow up this extraordinary story?
bbc.com/news/science-e…
2. Look at what scientists suggest we must do in the coming 6 months to 7.5 years! This couldn't possibly be achieved without economic system change.

Walk and cycle towards system change.
Stop flying.
Drive only if your situation compels you to.

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