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The Amazon Rainforest will enter into a sustained death spiral by the 2030s if deforestation isn't completely stopped in the next 48 months.
Amazon destruction surged 21% in 2020.
At that rate the rainforest 'will reach a tipping point in 10 to 20 years, after which it will enter a sustained death spiral'.
"It is mandatory to reach zero deforestation in all of the Amazon in less than 5 years". https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN29W20T?__twitter_impression=true
At that rate the rainforest 'will reach a tipping point in 10 to 20 years, after which it will enter a sustained death spiral'.
"It is mandatory to reach zero deforestation in all of the Amazon in less than 5 years". https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN29W20T?__twitter_impression=true
“We are scientists who have been studying the Amazon for many decades. Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now"
TO DO
reforestation
raise quality of life in Amazonian cities
develop bioeconomy
stop agribusiness https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-tipping-point-is-here-it-is-now-top-amazon-scientists-warn/
TO DO
reforestation
raise quality of life in Amazonian cities
develop bioeconomy
stop agribusiness https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/the-tipping-point-is-here-it-is-now-top-amazon-scientists-warn/
What can we do?
Immediately dedicate our lives and careers to limiting the damage from the global Ecological-Climate Catastrophe, and to creating profound political & economic system change for truly sustainable policies.
Threads with ideas here: https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1388013086917935104?s=20
Immediately dedicate our lives and careers to limiting the damage from the global Ecological-Climate Catastrophe, and to creating profound political & economic system change for truly sustainable policies.
Threads with ideas here: https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1388013086917935104?s=20
The death of billions of Amazon trees would release enormous quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, raising planetary temperatures, and causing more extreme weather events (and may trigger knock on impacts in other biomes and ecosystems). https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/impending-amazon-tipping-point-puts-biome-and-world-at-risk-scientists-warn/
Abrupt and Irreversible
'If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization'
'evidence from tipping points alone suggests that we are in a state of planetary emergency' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0
'If damaging tipping cascades can occur and a global tipping point cannot be ruled out, then this is an existential threat to civilization'
'evidence from tipping points alone suggests that we are in a state of planetary emergency' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0
