DEVASTATING DOMINO EFFECTS
THE GUARDIAN December 6, 2023: Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as the planet warms.
This warning comes as world leaders meet for the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai.
We keep looking for bright spots and we do see them. We find there are more and more articles in popular magazines, including for example decorating magazines encouraging people to make sustainable, eco-friendly purchases and develop the same types of habits in their homes.
Yet this news today is not encouraging.
THE GUARDIAN REPORTS:
Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned.
Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world heats 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial temperatures.
Triggering these planetary shifts will not cause temperatures to spiral out of control in the coming centuries but will unleash dangerous and sweeping damage to people and nature that cannot be undone.
“Tipping points in the Earth system pose threats of a magnitude never faced by humanity,” said Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute. “They can trigger devastating domino effects, including the loss of whole ecosystems and capacity to grow staple crops, with societal impacts including mass displacement, political instability and financial collapse.”
The tipping points at risk include the collapse of big ice sheets in Greenland and the West Antarctic, the widespread thawing of permafrost, the death of coral reefs in warm waters, and the collapse of one oceanic current in the North Atlantic.
THE Global Tipping Points is led by Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute with the support of more than 200 researchers from over 90 organisations in 26 countries.
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