Urgent advice for saving the Planet. cambridge.org/us/academic/su
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Julian Cribb
@JulianCribb
Science author with a focus on the tenfold human existential crisis: food security, climate, extinction, planetary pollution, nukes, resources, population.
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Laura Tingle to run for ABC board as government prepares shakeup
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RECORD HIGH CO2 EMISSIONS TO INCREASE 2023
"Natural gas usage will be flat, but coal and oil consumption will grow" Economist Intelligence Energy Outlook 2023
UNLIVABLE FUTURE AHEAD
#emissions. #climatechange #globalwarming
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Permafrost soils contain huge ice wedges - when these melt the land above just collapses releasing methane but also destroying the forest on top. This process is accelerating in the Arctic cycle. A double whammy.
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GLOBAL CROP YIELDS IN DECLINE AT 1.5°C (IPCC) "Impact of climate change on crop yield generally negative even with CO2 fertiliz effect
per-decade being
−2.3% for maize, −3.3% for soybean, −0.7% for rice and −1.3% for wheat' (AR6 WG2 5-735)
#foodsecurity #climatechange
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Adam Bandt accuses Albanese government of ‘greenwashing’ for allowing new coal and gas mines
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"A recent investigation into the world’s largest carbon standard found that 94% of its rainforest offset credits did not actually contribute to carbon reduction." There is a great scam being played out here and they're risking the biosphere for profit.
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In Japan, easy access to whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak: "many consumers who want to eat it cannot find or buy whale meat. We launched vending machines at unmanned stores for those people." apnews.com/article/japan-
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“Women want to control whether & when to have children, & how many children to have." Yet funding for international family planning is not keeping up w/demand.
Good time to note that every $ invested in family planning saves $3 in pregnancy-related costs
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The Dirty Dozen Banks
I agree with that if we don't stop financing BIG OIL we will get nowhere #ClimateEmergency
My own country 🇨🇦 & TD Bank on the list
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🇨🇦 1/2 a % of 🌎's population and YET we pack an ecocidal punch
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I'd start with Cato Institute, aided and abetted by Trumpian media incl. Elon Musk. They're fighting culture-war battles on multiple fronts, based on human-supremacy, anti-logic, pandering-to-nostalgia films + memes. Self-serving crimes against humanity+ the planet if you ask me.
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The return of very low quality climate denial (highlighting short-term trends, letting people know points in the past were hotter, etc) is all over my Twitter...it's so obviously coordinated just based on how repetitive and absurd it is.
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As long as fossil fuel companies have more influence over government policy than the electorate - Earth will continue to be driven down this ecocidal path. System change is required.
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There is no hope in the political sphere.
As states
"Politicians will not come to the rescue of the planet."
#ClimateEmergency
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Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history
🎶Jesus Jones
Meme quote #ClimateEmergency
To understand the history of Climate Change is to know nothing will change , and it is the time to "draw the line."
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Julian Cribb describes a new food system capable of meeting our global needs on this hot & overcrowded planet ... for anyone concerned about the
*health
*safety
*affordability
*diversity
*sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet.
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Are these
our Ten Megathreats?
•Global overheating
•Global Poisoning
•Weapons of mass destruction
•Resource scarcity
•Food insecurity
•Ecological breakdown and extinction
•Pandemic disease
•Overpopulation and overconsumption
•Uncontrollable technologies
•Mass delusion
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Replying to @KajEmbren @YaleClimateComm and 10 others
Fixing climate alone will not save humanity. We need to fix all ten of the megathreats. Here's how cambridge.org/us/academic/su
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WATCH: After one cultivated meat company won the go-ahead from a key regulator, executives are optimistic that lab-grown meat could be on restaurant menus in the U.S. within months. But the industry faces barriers including wary diners reut.rs/3WwTyRe
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"River Wye: Why the impending ‘death’ of one of the UK’s longest and best loved rivers should worry us all."
"The state of the River Wye fills me, and should fill everybody else in this country, with a righteous indignation and rage."
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10 corporations control food system and give illusion of diversity and make profits while causing NCDs says Marcos Ezequiel Filardi #PMAC2023
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On right now, Geraldine Doogue is talking to travel expert Tony Wheeler about travel this year as if the pandemic were over, both enthusiastically promoting it and never discussing the continuing risks posed by COVID. Please do better ABC
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Two people dead and two missing as rain pounds Auckland
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Listen to Ian Dunlop on the existential threat we face and the need for all health professionals to speak out #PMAC2023
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The greatest emergency that humans have ever faced... excellent piece by
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"The great acceleration" is seriously in danger of becoming the great collapse. There's no such thing as infinite growth on a finite planet.
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A perfect metaphor for the COP conferences.
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BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA: A Cape Town ‘unwelcoming commi...
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Doomsday Clock Jitters and “How to Fix a Broken Planet” - CounterPunch.org
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The greatest emergency that humans have ever faced... excellent piece by
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Ecologists and climate scientists look at climate change in very different ways. Climate scientists view emissions as the problem. Thus, renewables makes sense. Ecologists see climate change as a symptom of ecological overshoot. Thus, renewables will make overshoot worse.
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FASTER THAN EXPECTED. …why most climate scientists can’t tell… | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Jan, 2023 | Medium
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We're in Canada's National Post:
The planet is in a state of ecological overshoot, said Bajaj. Climate change, biodiversity loss, growing scarcities of freshwater are all bigger problems than “the bizarre claim that we’re not producing enough babies”
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A culture and a system that finds it ok to deforest the entire planet for the sake of increased profits has to go.
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367 Covid deaths last week in Australia, 10 busloads. That's an average of 52 per day. Today there were no press conferences by our "leaders" such as offering condolences. And no strategy to reduce transmission and address long COVID. We are in a leadership vacuum.
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BREAKING : scientists warn of an increasingly likely rapid mass extinction scenario for Earth's species as the rate of deforestation and degradation in the Amazon is shown to be much more rapid than previously thought 🧵
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If a pandemic killed 15,000 people & nobody seemed to notice was it really a pandemic? In Australia last year COVID-19 killed more people than lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, car accidents & drowning combined…just sayin #auspol #covid19aus
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You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and who was not?
My column on the massive, ongoing, yet denied and minimised impacts of the virus.
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No rivers in England meet both Good Ecological Status & Good Chemical Status due to pollution from industry, sewage & agriculture. Where do river lead? #CoastalFutures23
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