Richard AshwellBusinesses face #extinction unless they protect #nature, major report warns
Experts are calling for urgent action to restore the natural systems that keep the #economy running
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8g20xgdjwo #collapse #Collapse2040
My hashtag #Collapse2040 is my prediction that in 2040 if you are not growing your own food, you won't be eating.
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2073 - Official Trailer
The best & most comprehensive article I have read yet about the impending #collapse due to #overshoot, and what we can, but why we won't, do anything about it.
Thank you Jack of all trades @jackofalltrades
Overshoot: Cognitive Obsolescence
And the Population Conundrum
"the risk that the world ultimately cannot stick to a path that rapidly phases out fossil fuels and avoids the worst climate outcomes. "
quite optimistic huh... did they take into consideration resources like copper to do so ? Even if there's not enough to mine, you need fresh water to extract copper.
And if there isn't enough doom-loops, we should also add geo-engineering for some funky unpredictable outcomes.
Reversing climate change may cost quadruple after tipping point, warn experts
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-reversing-climate-quadruple-experts.html
#climatecrisis #climate #ecology #climat #ecologie #Collapse #Collapse2040 #effondrement
Reversing climate change may cost quadruple after tipping point, warn experts
Tip the first tile in a line of dominoes and you'll set off a chain reaction, one tile falling after another. Cross a tipping point in the climate system and, similarly, you might spark a cascading set of consequences like hastened warming, rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather.
#COP29 puts world on course for more #ExtremeWeather – and more deaths
Summit proves change won’t come until #floods and #wildfires are killing tens of thousands in rich Global North cities
Glad you agree that the #collapse of civilisation is imminent. As you can see from my hashtag #Collapse2040 my guess is that it will be very soon.
What I mean exactly by that hashtag is that if you aren't growing your own food by 2040, you won't be eating. And if you are growing your own food, then roving bands of armed and hungry thugs will be trying to steal it from you.
So who will survive? Those who are able to hang on to large tracts of land, mostly the very rich who are buying it up at a serious rate now, and those that they pay to farm it, and to defend it. Payment will likely be as a share of the available food.
It sounds very feudal, doesn't it? Well, that's where we are headed, in my view. A few will survive as part of the feudal system described above rather than a complete extinction of the human race.
Life will be much, much harder, partly because it will be much harder to grow food than it was due to #ClimateChange and ecological destruction in general - few or no insects for pollination, poor degraded soil, unpredictable weather, and so on. The carrying capacity of the planet will be very much reduced, but I don't think we will go completely extinct.
(Hopefully Musk will have buggered off to Mars by then and won't come back, though I suspect that even he will work out that his idea of colonising Mars is entirely impractical.)
The scientific consensus is that the current rate of #extinction of all species is between 100 and 1000 times the background rate. That is the signature of a #MassExtinction event that has already begun, in this case, the #SixthMassExtinction on this planet. That is scientific fact, not a prediction.
Whether the human race becomes extinct as a result is less certain. The #collapse of civilisation as we know it much more certain, in my view.