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Biosphere in Crisis
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The biosphere is in crisis due to factors that include global warming, biodiversity loss, overpopulation, overshoot, & plastic pollution. My aim is to increase awareness of urgency for action
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#Climate collapse is just one of the polycrises humanity faces as a result of #overshoot, which is the extent to which human activity is exceeding the carrying capacity of the planet. The key drivers of overshoot, population growth and consumerism, must be contained to meaningfully address this.
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"Then 2020-2025.

PLAGUES, GENOCIDES, LOCUSTS, FLOODS, FIRES, CHAOS.

It is no longer necessary to visit subreddits.

Days follow days follow months follow days follow years follow lifetimes.

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Will +1.5°C be double dead by 2050?...

H/t @tugberksamur
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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awho said the climate catastrophe would be bad for the economy
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
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We urgently need honesty on the climate crisis.

Military emissions are excluded from national emissions figures. Yes, we simply pretend they don't exist.

That means there's little pressure to reduce them.
This has to change.

www.thewaronclimate.org
The War On Climate | Join the Climate Action
Explore how military emissions impact climate change and learn how to advocate for accountability and sustainable policies to protect the planet.
www.thewaronclimate.org
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‘The European Union intends to increase the glyphosate allowed in water.

The current limit is 0.1 micrograms of #glyphosate per litre of water. The new revision aims to increase this maximum to 398.6 micrograms per litre of water, which would mean multiplying by 4,000 the current allowed limit.’
No podemos permitir que se sigan contaminando nuestros ríos, lagos y aguas subterráneas ni nuestras tierras, mucho menos tolerar que incrementen los límites permitidos de contaminación.

¡¡El beneficio de unos pocos nos pone en riesgo a la mayoría!!

www.elsaltodiario.com/agrotoxicos/...
La Unión Europea pretende multiplicar por 4.000 el glifosato permitido en aguas
Según Ecologistas en Acción, supondría permitir legalmente una grave contaminación de las aguas que pondría en mayor riesgo la biodiversidad y la salud.
www.elsaltodiario.com
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Marine ecology is in a calamitous state, as exemplified but not limited to the demise of coral reefs, the first tipping point to be crossed. Blinkered carbon-centric initiatives such as Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) threaten to worsen this existential threat to the survival of the biosphere.
Marine ecology is in a calamitous state, as exemplified but not limited to the demise of coral reefs, the first tipping point to be crossed. Blinkered carbon-centric initiatives such as Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) threaten to worsen this existential threat to the survival of the biosphere.
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Uh, yeah… they’ve hit a record high every single year for at least the last 67 years…
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UK food inflation is being driven by climate change-induced extreme weather, driving up price of butter, milk, beef, chocolate & coffee

The price rises in those staples is contributing 40% of overall food inflation

Climate change is hitting peoples' pockets, right now

www.ft.com/content/ced8...
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
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ICE has killed at least 19 people since it began its kidnapping spree under orders of Donald Trump; most victims died while in internment due to “illness” caused by the deliberate poor conditions they are held in.
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It's now getting serious:

"Prices for these five foods – butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate – have risen by an average of 15.6% over the past year, compared with just 2.8% for other food and drink [1]."

Largely driven by extreme weather

Further developments will not be linear...

#climate
Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame
Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living.
eciu.net
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Parts of capital are realizing that they won't survive the current trajectory

"Around 30 institutional investors including Swiss private bank Pictet Group and Nordic investor DNB Asset Management have so far signed up to the Belém Investor Statement on Rainforests, which is open until November 1."
Investors managing $3 trillion in assets urge countries to stop deforestation
Global investors managing over $3 trillion in assets called on governments on Monday to stop and reverse deforestation and ecosystem degradation by 2030, in a statement signed ahead of a U.N. climate conference in Brazil next month.
www.reuters.com
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If we ever manage to accept that we are nothing but a fragment of the living ecosystem, it would be the humblest, yet possibly greatest discovery mankind has ever made

From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
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In US, undercount of heat-related hospitalizations & deaths has been documented in research for years because healthcare & medical examiners don’t usually code heat as a cause. Summer excess deaths instead, are coded as heart, lung, or kidney disease, age, etc. Can’t manage what you don’t measure.
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"Once they work out how to do this profitably, it will spread to others, too,”... if Amazon achieves its automation goal, “one of the biggest employers in the United States will become a net job destroyer, not a net job creator.”

www.theverge.com/news/803257/...
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
They’re taking our jobs.
www.theverge.com
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How climate breakdown affects basic food commodities

1. Prices begin to rise significantly

2. The poorest can't afford them

3. Almost nobody can afford them

4. You can't buy them

Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame eciu.net/media/press-...
Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame
Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living.
eciu.net
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New climate = New risk
A tornado has hit Ermont near Paris, France, causing 3 cranes to collapse. At least 1 person is dead and 9 people injured.