@meg

“The climate crisis is seen as a problem requiring a solution rather than a symptom of overshoot. The problem is generally formulated as looking for a way to maintain current lifestyles in the wealthy world, rather than reducing overshoot.”

#EcosystemCollapse #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@laurahelmuth

“We’re starting to realize that we’ve really messed up our soils at a global scale" ... is not really what one wants to hear, but it does not surprise given the extent of fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticide use, in addition to antibiotics and purines from animal farm waste, emissions from burning fossil fuels and rubber particles in the waters from car brake pads and tyres.

#EcosystemCollapse #Soil

Biden is giving a speech on the heat and storms and carbon pollution that is killing us. The #ClimateEmergency.

Here's what we need our President to be saying. @whcos, @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, feel free to take notes.

(Boost on twitter: https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1684548224294572034?s=20)

https://kolektiva.social/@sambutlerUS/110136767962033537

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #EcosystemCollapse #ClimateChange #degrowth #carfree #fuckcars #localization #housing #demilitarization #regeneration #LandBack #agroecology #sovereignty #FoodSovereignty #system #grassroots #organizing #activism #change #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #heatwaves #flood #fires #wildfire #disaster #NaturalDisaster #ClimateDisaster #ClimateCatastrophe #NativePlants #Bicycle #bike #PublicSpace #local #MoreThanHuman

@HelenG The collapse of the Gulf Stream https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream implies the end of European agriculture as we know it. Yikes. It is already at a very weak point as of this year. 2025 sounds very soon; will read the paper first https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w before any further action.

#GulfStream #GulfCurrent #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #EcosystemCollapse

@KleineMaulwurf

Two centuries of knowledge and warnings yet here we are, amid an entirely expected #GlobalWarming with its #ClimateCrisis and #EcosystemCollapse

https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20210407_two_centuries_of_global_warming_warnings.html

We may be the most shortsighted, wishful thinking civilisation yet on planet Earth.

After using software to simulate over 70,000 #ecosystem scenarios, the two professors and a postdoctoral researcher issued this warning in The Conversation:
#Ecological doom-loops: why #ecosystemcollapse may occur much sooner than expected – new research https://theconversation.com/ecological-doom-loops-why-ecosystem-collapses-may-occur-much-sooner-than-expected-new-research-207955

@katejjeffery

And it’s sad to witness how family after family thought such changes happen to “others” “elsewhere”, and when it happens to them, then it feels like the end is near. As if they weren’t told, or didn’t know at all. Perhaps it’s that for those whose trade is identity politics, anything outside their accepted dogma is dismissed as a plan by those with other identities, rather than genuine, honest communications. “Piensa el ladrón que son todos de su condición.”—the thief assumes everyone else steals too.

We seem all unable to acknowledge what we have done and continue to do to the environment and therefore to ourselves. When did we forget nature is finite and that we are part of it. When was it deemed acceptable to let society-wide decisions with deep long-term impacts be taken by a few rich corporations in connivance with spineless short-termist politicians. When was democracy reduced to voting every few years and never holding elected representatives accountable for their time in office.

It’s beyond frustrating to know and to witness the inaction. Like a slow-motion train wreck.

#EcosystemCollapse #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #LifestyleChange

by #MatthewRozsa in #Salon:

"By the late 21st century, the PNAS authors contend, approximately one-fifth of the species will endure [compound drought and heatwaves] roughly twice a year, each one lasting approximately 25 days, with all of the wildfires and blistering, scorching heat they entail."

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/09/ecosystem-collapse-could-occur-surprisingly-quickly-study-finds/

#EcosystemCollapse #ecosystem #drought #HeatWave #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #climate #environment #CDHW #PNAS

“Yesterday was the hottest day in recorded history — and it was the day that Britain decided to, LOL, renege on its climate pledge. Of about 11 billion pounds. That’s about 0.25% of its GDP. A minuscule sum. This is how seriously we’re taking the Age of Extinction at the moment.”
https://eand.co/the-next-level-of-the-age-of-extinction-8a0ceb85a28f

#UK #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #EcosystemCollapse

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds
Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn

Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that models how tipping points can amplify and accelerate one another. ..

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/ecological-tipping-points-could-occur-much-sooner-than-expected-study-finds

#climate #climatecrisis #climateemergency #ecosystemcollapse #ecocide

@gretathunberg

Europe's Restoration Law:
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/nature-and-biodiversity/nature-restoration-law_en

... a core element of the biodiversity strategy for 2030 https://environment.ec.europa.eu/strategy/biodiversity-strategy-2030_en ... which is part of the European Green Deal https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

#RestoreNature #RestorationLaw #EU #Europe #EcosystemCollapse #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

"Rather than hurting farming and fishing, protecting nature pays for itself"–Enric Sala #NatGeo

"Nature provides $125 trillion in goods and services to the global economy annually – for free."

"Every euro spent on nature restoration produces 8 to 38 euros in economic value"

"In the sea, restoration of marine life in HPMAs produces economic returns of 10:1 via fisheries enhancement, ecotourism and other ecosystem benefits."

https://www.context.news/nature/opinion/rejecting-nature-restoration-in-europe-is-a-shot-in-the-foot

#EcosystemServices #EcosystemCollapse

@MotherJones

A 75% reduction in plastic production is needed—yowza! But considering that 50% of all plastics in existence by 2017 where produced in the 13 years prior (2004–2017) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700782 and that most ocean plastic pollution is from broken down fishing nets https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-fishing-gear-is-biggest-plastic-polluter-in-ocean-finds-report it seems feasible to drastically reduce global plastic production in the short term. All it takes is what we are lacking: decisive political action.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #OceanPollution #PlasticPollution #EcosystemCollapse

@yours_truly

Through cinema, literature, art, we may find a way to show by example how we can live well while nurturing, rather than mining and depleting, the natural world that we so critically depend on for our wellbeing.

#GlobalWarming #EcosystemCollapse #ClimateChange

"Anthropocene 'sixth mass extinction' event predicted to be worse than previously thought"
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-anthropocene-sixth-mass-extinction-event.html

The paper: "More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends" by Finn, Grattarola and Pincheira-Donoso 2023 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12974

Causes: not really #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange but rather from #EcosystemCollapse and #Ecocide–the sistematic dismantling of Earth's ecosystems–, and primarily from our present approach to food production and consumption.

Meanwhile, most of us continue to commute by car, consume red meat, fly for holidays and work, and in other words, pretend this `problem` clearly somebody else must be solving, or there isn't a problem at all because this very minute we aren't inconvenienced by it.

@pvonhellermannn Such contrast with the lives of our grandparents where the only way anything was thrown away was to feed the pigs, add to the compost pile, or to start the wood-burning furnace. Tools wore out, then the wood handle burned or reused and the remaining metal went back to the foundry or used as part of fertilizer when made of iron. The advent of milk plastic bottles was buffered for a while; these were reused for years, cut in half, to protect tender lettuce shoots. At the time of their death there was a whole storage space filled with thousands—that was the start of waste. Up to then my grandparents didn’t know what waste was—it was not a concept.

#EcosystemCollapse #Waste

@wintersparv The paper:

"Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe", by Rigal et al. 2023
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

"we uncover direct relationships between population time-series of 170 common bird species, monitored at more than 20,000 sites in 28 European countries, over 37 years, and four widespread anthropogenic pressures: agricultural intensification, change in forest cover, urbanisation and temperature change over the last decades."

"We find that agricultural intensification, in particular pesticides and fertiliser use, is the main pressure for most bird population declines, especially for invertebrate feeders."

#birds #EcosystemCollapse #Europe #Agriculture #insects #InsectApocalypse

@Ruth_Mottram @WIRED

"An alarming new paper [1] in the journal Nature Communications estimates that between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites are splayed across Arctic permafrost regions, with 3,500 to 5,200 in areas that’ll be affected by thawing soils before the end of the century."

Goodness gracious.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37276-4

#Arctic #pollution #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #EcosystemCollapse #Ecocide

“The collapse of insects” https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/ By Julia Janicki, Gloria Dickie, Simon Scarr and Jitesh Chowdhury; illustrations by Catherine Tai. 2022.

Few world wide events are as significant and as scary as this. If you don’t know about it or don’t know why, this infographic is well done and to the point. Our very continuation into the future is on the line.

#insects #entomology #ClimateChange #EcosystemCollapse #Extinction

Antarctic ice melt could disrupt the world’s oceans: Study

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/antarctic-ice-melt-could-disrupt-the-world-s-oceans-study

"A major ocean circulation that forms around Antarctica could be headed for collapse, risking significant changes to the world’s weather, sea levels and the health of marine ecosystems, scientists say, offering a stark warning about the growing impacts of climate change.

"Global warming is accelerating the melting of ice in Antarctica, and the increased amount of freshwater flooding into the ocean is disrupting the flow of the Antarctic overturning circulation, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

"The Antarctic overturning circulation is part of a global network of currents that shift heat, oxygen and nutrients around the globe."

#climatechange #oceanography #oceanwarming #ecosystemcollapse