BREAKING : as global food and water systems reach the brink of collapse the UK police are to be given powers to shut down protests before they cause widespread disruption 🧵
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1. 'At no other point in history has agriculture been faced with such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks
disasters... are upending people’s lives, devastating livelihoods, and jeopardizing our entire food system'
UN Food & Agriculture Organization
fao.org/documents/card
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2. The police are to be given powers to shut down protests before they cause widespread disruption under plans being announced by ministers today
..a move to clamp down on so-called guerrilla tactics used by groups such as Just Stop Oil & Insulate Britain'
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3. A staggering 49% - 83% of Earth’s glaciers that provide drinking water, agricultural water, hydropower, and other services that support billions of people, will soon be gone.
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4. 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.
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5. We can expect 1.5/2°C of global warming by the 2030s. 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
carbonbrief.org/analysis-when-
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