Ben See@ClimateBen · Nov 17, 2024BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate…
Summary
Scientists express despair over the failed COP29 climate conference, warning that 1.5°C warming is now inevitable in the 2020s and 2°C will likely occur by 2030-2050, making rapid emissions cuts impossible. The thread argues that climate change combined with biodiversity destruction driven by industrial capitalism's profit-maximization creates an extinction-level crisis that requires immediate systemic economic change.
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2. Abrupt climate change is just one compounding factor in extinction catastrophe. Biodiversity destruction is a core part of the reality of industrial capitalism. Change this Doom Economy now while it's still too late to protect species and everyone.🧵⬇️
Ben See@ClimateBen · Nov 12, 2024What makes one think global warming of 2°C and rising within 9 to 13 years is "survivable"?
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3. Rapid habitat and species destruction linked directly to GDP growth and short-term profit maximisation has set up the fastest extinction in Earth's history. Global warming of 1.5°C van contribute to causing unsurvivable conditions. #ExtinctionEconomy
Ben See@ClimateBen · Nov 16, 2024At 1.5°C: worst impacts of climate change unavoidable Amazon rainforest collapses extinction risk increases disproportionately AMOC and ice sheets tip 99% of corals annihilated abrupt permafrost thaw 40-60% of glaciers gone crop yield losses: >2-7% tropics: uninhabitable
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Ben See@ClimateBen · Jan 29, 2023If we burn fossil fuels so we reach 2°C, the planet will very likely, by itself, increase temperatures a further 0.5°C. So 2°C will mean 2.5°C. And 2.5°C risks triggering the next set of tipping points which could lead to a cascade and a drift of warmer and warmer temperatures.🧵
