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Sep 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Pakistan climate chaos

- 1,600 dead
- 13,000 injured
- 3 million children at risk
- 1+ million livestock perished
- 2+ million houses damaged
- 7+ million acres of crop area hit

How many journalists will remind us all that rich countries must #PayUp4LossAndDamage ?
1. Do not expect unrelenting climate-extinction coverage in the mass media. Still, we can analyse what there is, and support independent journalism.

2. We are in an extraordinary situation. Keeping up with what is happening is no easy task. We can keep informing ourselves and each other.

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3. Thanks to @Rabail26 for yesterday's update.

4. 'Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned Friday that his country's worst-ever floods were a sign of climate catastrophes to come around the world, as he urged justice for developing nations that bear little responsibility for warming.'

france24.com/en/asia-pacifi…

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Sep 25
In 2021, the IPCC had economic growth scenarios limiting global warming to 1.6/1.7°C by 2050.

Given we're looking at hitting 1.4/1.5°C by ~2025 and emissions are rising to extreme record levels, how can such best estimates still be considered relevant?

What do scientists say?🧵 Image
The official line is global emissions can be cut by an absolutely staggering 50% within just 7.5 to 12.5 years as rich countries' economies continue to grow for 1.6/1.7C by 2050.

A dubious assumption: economic growth can allow Earth's species to thrive.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/08/key-ta…
Economic growth past and present means 1.8/1.9°C within years not decades barring something fairly bizarre prior to 2041 if you ask me.

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Sep 24
“Environmental degradation is now considered a threat to humanity, which could bring about societal collapses.”

Hyperbole? Sadly not. 🧵
1. “Environmental degradation is now considered a threat to humanity, which could bring about societal collapses.”

Hyperbole? Sadly not.'

Ecosystem collapse factors: land clearing, intensive agriculture, soil degradation, poor water management.
theconversation.com/natural-system…
2. The IPCC & IPBES referred to this 2019 study (that shows Australia's ecosystems are collapsing) for their joint 2021 report which suggested actions like moving rapidly away from GDP economic growth to try to avoid global ecosystem disaster.

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Sep 24
The United Kingdom is collapsing. 🧵
1. Biodiversity Collapse in UK Continues

'there is no let-up in net losses for the UK's wildlife

More intensive agriculture is still driving declines in farmland nature, while climate change is also having an increasing effect' (2019)

And now, in 2022?

theecologist.org/2019/oct/04/bi…
2. The 'most fundamental legal protections' are in the process of being destroyed as the UK government 'attacks' the natural world with 'bulldozers and concrete'. This is from a major, normally restrained, conservative NGO.

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Sep 23
CNN, CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News have run more Queen Elizabeth II stories in the past 2 weeks than climate change stories in the past 2 years.🧵
1. “A survey of CNN, CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News finds 425 individual stories about Queen Elizabeth II’s death since Sept 7—and 331 total stories on Climate Change since Sept 2020.”

And what about rapid mass extinction due to industrial capitalism?

thecolumn.substack.com/p/tv-news-did-…
2. Ecosystem collapse and a horrifying biodiversity calamity in the coming decades is what we face, not just climate change. Mass media, a.k.a state-corporate media, can't reveal that we're living in an Extinction Economy.

See this thread on The Guardian:
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Sep 22
What is Loss and Damage? 🧵

#COP27 #ClimateJustice
It Is A Term...

The term “loss and damage” (small “l” and “d”) is the term used to describe the manifestation of climate change impacts which are not or cannot be avoided by adaptation and mitigation efforts (i.e. reducing emissions).

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Whereas “Loss and Damage” (big “L” and “D”) is used to describe the policies and plans that are used to address loss and damage, such as those that are negotiated at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Sep 20
Biodiversity disaster 'for the whole of Europe'.

"Everything that is strictly aquatic has died, including the eel, which is in danger of extinction, and other species of fish..and aquatic insects. Plants and amphibians may resist, but not for so long,” english.elpais.com/spain/2022-09-…
'South America’s Amazon rainforest, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and Spain’s Donana wetlands are all at a risk of collapse without better local management'.

From 2015.

Partial or total collapse has now begun it would seem as we face 1.4/1.5°C by 2025.
ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tec…
'Water supplies to Doñana, whose marshes, forests and dunes extend across.. the Andalucían provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cádiz, have declined drastically over the past 30 years because of climate breakdown, farming, mining pollution and marsh drainage.'
dumptheguardian.com/world/2022/sep…
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