Extinction Rebellion Seattle

NEW STUDY: A M O C are the four most important letters in my life - in your life reading this - in everyone's living on this planet. Even if we truly understood even a little of what is at stake, we would be spending days unable to speak - traumatised by horror and terror. And then we would know what we are going to be doing for rest of our lives. Doing what it takes to stop this from happening. “There’s now five papers, basically, that suggested it could well happen in this century, or even before the middle of the century,” Rahmstorf said. “My overall assessment is now that the risk of us passing the tipping point in this century is probably even greater than 50%.” Prof S. Rahmstorf, world expert on AMOC, @PIK_Climate edition.cnn.com/2024/08/02/c… 3 August 2024 climatecodered.org/2024/05/o…… @djspratt "Consequences:  Modelling by Prof. Peter Ditlevsen of the University of Copenhagen shows that AMOC slowdown would cool London by an average of 10°C and Bergen, Norway by 15°C.  A breakdown of this system could plunge the UK and large parts of the Northern Hemisphere into a new ice age ... " Global food and water security crisis: Ditlevsen and his co-authors conclude that a collapse of the AMOC heat-transporting circulation would be a going-out-of-business scenario for European agriculture: “You cannot adapt to this”. In addition, writes Prof. Tim Lenton, the director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, the monsoons that typically deliver rain to West Africa and South Asia would become unreliable, and huge swathes of Europe and Russia would be devastated by drought. As much as half of the world’s viable area for growing corn and wheat could dry out. He says that “in simple terms [it] would be a combined food and water security crisis on a global scale.”"

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The present political system cannot survive because it is caught in an impossible position. If it goes against the interests of international capital, trying to tax the rich and big corporations properly, then its economy will be undermined by capital flight. If it does not tax the rich and big corporations properly, it will not have the finances to fund the "green" transition, to which it is legally committed. It then has two choices - to break its own law and not enact the transition (the Tories); or push the cost of the transition onto working people (Labour). This would 'just' be a problem, rather than an existential threat to the existing regime, if the "climate" was a linear thing - but temperatures are going up, and going up exponentially, undermining the fiscal viability of the neoliberal state. Expect to see news like the new policy on insulation over the course of the incoming Labour government. And then for fascism to win at the following election. Alternatively, we create a civil resistance movement to counterbalance the power of capital. The consequences of failure are unimaginable. "The Labour party had pledged to invest the £6bn a year that experts including Greenpeace say is required to tackle the UK’s housing stock. But it recently scaled back its spending plans for insulating homes by more than 70%." theguardian.com/environment/….