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BREAKING: EARTH PAST ITS "SAFE LIMITS" FOR HUMANS [1]
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Date: 2023-05-31
I never write two stories a day.
I had to write two stories today.
Announcing breaking news, just reported in the Financial Times.
Quick quote follows. You can read the rest at the link above. I can’t share more here, for fear of violating the FT’s terms.
The earth is already past safe limits for humans as temperature rise, water system disruption and destruction of natural habitats have reached boundaries, a study by a group of the world’s foremost scientists has found. The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, identified eight earth system boundaries that included climate, biodiversity, water, natural ecosystems, land use and the effect of fertilisers and aerosols. Human activities had pushed seven of these boundaries beyond their “safe and just limit” into risk zones that indicate the threat to planetary and human health, it said.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The time to act is NOW. Where are we all? What are we doing? Driving less, recycling (when convenient) and eating fewer burgers isn’t cutting it. Voting blue isn’t (so far) doing a thing to actually lower emissions — or, frankly, to preserve the environment, which continues to be poisoned, raped, pillaged, and whittled away with cuts small and large every single day.
Asking did not work.
Voting did not work.
Marching did not work.
Emissions keep going up and our home habitat continues rapidly to degrade.
OUR LEADERS HAVE FAILED US.
Will we now fail ourselves, by not taking a final stand against our impending extinction ???
Time for a #ClimateRevolution.
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