What we’re facing *right now* & in the next *few years* is unprecedented in human history. While not inevitable, there’s a very significant risk of a total collapse of our food systems & a mass starvation event. https://t.co/FdycgLw4xK
— Dr. William Horne (@wihorne) October 16, 2022
Today I learned the Amazon is approaching a tipping point, beyond which it would begin to transition from a lush rain forest into a much drier climate, which would be devastating for the entire planet. Extreme action on climate is starting to seem like the reasonable approach.
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPotash) October 16, 2022
The Amazon is approaching a tipping point where it will transition from a rainforest to a drier climate, a process which would dramatically alter world weather patterns. Brazil’s fascist president Bolsonaro is enabling this, and defeating him would be a victory for the planet.
— Slow Factory (@theslowfactory) October 17, 2022
Our rain water is poisoned with forever chemicals, glaciers are melting, countries are flooding, millions of people are being displaced, micro plastics are being found in breast milk, micro plastics are found in fish - this is the climate and biodiversity crisis.
— Sommer Ackerman (@lifewithsommer) October 17, 2022
How many journalists will point out that scientists indicate economic growth equates to a horrifically rapid, ecosystem-wrecking, species-obliterating shift to 2°C - 3°C of global warming within a few decades?
— Ben See (@ClimateBen) October 18, 2022
Just an extraordinary news story. https://t.co/rdnwQXZwTt
Learning that the US keeps about 700 million barrels of oil in old salt mines along the gulf coast.
— Tobias Wilson-Bates (@PhDhurtBrain) October 19, 2022
Mass extinction.... Jennifer Abbott’s deeply felt film The Magnitude of All Things brings this down to a human & local scale. We are screening the film (in person & online) Nov 2 to celebrate the launch of our newest publication Borrowed Time. Book now https://t.co/JIBIHmDKBF pic.twitter.com/RrT8bApBqd
— art.earth (@artdotearth) October 20, 2022
Four ways to look at global CO₂ emissions.
— Hannah Ritchie (@_HannahRitchie) October 20, 2022
1. Which countries have contributed most historically?
Share of cumulative CO₂ since 1750:
🇺🇸 US: 25%
🇨🇳 China: 14%
🇷🇺 Russia: 7%
🇩🇪 Germany: 5.5%
🇬🇧 UK: 4.6%
🇯🇵 Japan: 4%
🇮🇳 India: 3%
🇫🇷 France: 2.3%
🇨🇦 Canada: 2%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 1.8% pic.twitter.com/nraWTwvg0T
one of the worst things colonization took from us & the natural world is the loss of plant varieties.
— jules 🧸 (@smokeyrgreens) October 20, 2022
for example, in India prior to the green revolution in the 1970s, there were 110,000 landrace varieties of rice. post-revolution, 90% of rice varieties were lost.
A leading climatologist calls the record October heat around the world a sign that the climate is “spiralling out of control.” From Africa to Asia, Europe to the Middle East to North America, October heat is setting records - with more to come in the next week 🧵
— XR Cambridge (@xr_cambridge) October 22, 2022
It’s 4am in Montreal and after several years of negotiations, governments have just adopted an historic Global Biodiversity Framework for saving nature. Here’s a thread with my take on what's good and what's bad in it.
— Stuart Butchart (@stubutchart) December 19, 2022
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