Has capitalism left it too late to avoid hellish 1.75/2.25°C of global warming and rising?
Yes.
Can we adapt?
No.
Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating political-economic systems changes are mandatory?
Yes.
Will journalists reveal this?
No.
1. The UN/IPCC and mass media journalists continue to mislead the public with the notion that the current economic system - or any system - can avoid 1.5/2°C (when adaptation starts to become/becomes impossible).
2. The two major scientific bodies, the IPCC and the IPBES, have issued major reports indicating current political-economic systems must be changed as they are causing biodiversity destruction, extinction, ecosystem collapse, and extreme climate change.
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3. Even the consensus science (which is challenged by Dr James Hansen and many other great scientists because it doesn't reflect the reality of catastrophic and accelerating climate change properly) reveals it may be too late to avoid 1.75°C and 2°C. nature.com/articles/s4324…
4. The IPCC implies adaptation is still possible at 1.5- 1.9°C, however major ecosystems and biomes are being bulldozed and heated to collapse at 1/1.5°C.
Change this Extinction Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.
7. 'Nature-based solutions – such as coral reefs, mangroves and marshes, all of which can help adaptation efforts – will likely reach hard limits of their own as the planet warms beyond 1.5C, the report says.' carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-th…
8. Adaptation at 1.75/2.25°C?
Given the catastrophic consequences of 1.25/1.75°C, non-climate factors, and the fact we must anticipate far worse at today's 427 ppm of atmospheric CO2 and rising fast, survival for many/the majority species is in doubt.
Has capitalism left it too late to avoid hellish 2/2.5°C of global warming and rising?
Yes.
Can we adapt?
No.
Has the scientific community issued major consensus reports indicating political-economic systems changes are mandatory?
Yes.
Will journalists reveal this?
No.
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The planet you think you're living on no longer exists. This Extinction Economy has set up conditions which scientists fear will prove unsurvivable for the majority of species within decades. Change this Doom-growth system now while it's still too late.
Mass extinction media won't explain why we will hit 2/2.5°C by or before 2040-41. They are part of the state-corporate doom machine and don't want you researching clouds, aerosols, and climate sensitivity. Time to rethink to protect species and everyone.
BREAKING: fears of catastrophe grow as Establishment scientists who organised IPCC's dangerously wrong climate assumptions begin to acknowledge they were wrong 🧵
1. Are Establishment figures really beginning to acknowledge their mistake? Scientists like Hansen, Simons, etc have been pointing out the likelihood of 2°C by the 2030s for a long time, but corporate journalists naturally refuse to investigate seriously.
2. Conservative scientists have insisted for years we should disregard models that show even more extreme warming should be anticipated (and sooner) than the already extreme warming previously expected.
1.5-1.75°C by 2024-2026
1.75-2°C by 2029-2031
2-2.25°C by 2034-2036
Time's up.
Rethink human systems now to protect species and everyone while it's still too late.
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State-corporate journalists/editors have ignored the latest climate models for years and years. They've had the information needed to warn the public for decades. Hellish two degrees and rising in the 2030s is nearly here.
The Extinction Economy is wiping out life as we know it. 40-70% of species are at critical extreme risk of extinction within a few decades. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in the annihilation of biodiversity and life as we know it.
Scientists used to think utterly unsurvivable extremes wouldn't hit until 2081-2300 or later (or never). Now they fully expect abrupt global extinction horror by the 2040s.
1. 'What happens in the next two decades will very likely define the future of biodiversity and H. sapiens.' From 2023.
DOOM: For 250 years between 1720 and 1969, the US, UK, & Europe were the main CO2 emitters and the key wreckers of biodiversity. These criminal countries subsequently blocked any attempts to change the deeply entrenched economic system away from deadly capitalism and growth.
1. The US knew by the 1950s/60s that systems change was required to avoid global catastrophe. Scientists informed the President. However, the priorities remained power and wealth.
Earth's species will suffer global warming of 2, 2.5, or 3°C in 12 to 14 years. (No scientist really thinks we won't hit at least 1.96°C for the first time by 2038 after hitting 1.68°C in 2024.) Primates like humans are unlikely to survive for very much longer. Time to rethink.🧵
1. "a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival." @jeremycorbyn
Organise for political and economic system change action while it's still too late to protect species and everyone. dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3°C trend from 2045. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…