Mass media refuse to report that scientists fear the current economic system won't prevent extinction catastrophe and water & food insecurity horrors for billions by the 2030s. 🧵
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1. A food crisis already threatens a record number of people around the world with more than 1/3 of a billion at acute levels of hunger and nearly 50 million people on the brink of famine.
Climate is just one factor.
How often is this front page news?
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2. We can expect 1.5/2°C of global warming by the 2030s.
carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-
Climate is just one factor.
1.5C: 1.5 billion face moderate/high levels of risk in 2 or more of the water, energy, food & environment sectors
2C: 2.7 billion
3C: 4.6 billion
physicsworld.com/a/missing-1-5c
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3. Economic growth means 1.75/2.25°C by the 2030s/2040s/2050s looks more or less unavoidable.
1.5°C and rising implies a planetary catastrophe of (mass) extinction. Ecosystem collapse is already underway.
A rapid shift to >2°C is expected.
System change!
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The rate of climate change could soon exceed 0.4°C per decade which would quickly destroy all ecosystems. 
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Tbf; human population tends to increase to consume available resources. The disparity in allocation doesn't exactly change that metric. It's not clear that earth can sustainably feed the billions we have long-term. In aggregate mankind will have to learn to do more with less...
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The biggest factor contributing to food insecurity is that the #1 wheat exporter invaded the #4 wheat exporter. Sanctions on that #1, prevents them from selling fertilizer to Brazil, which will cripple their food production.
These factors are the ones that matter now.
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Global grain (cereal) production is basically at all-time highs with the current small drop not due to climate but to the Ukraine war.
Why don't any food production statistics match your apocalyptic rhetoric?
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