HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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Thank you, Ruth.
I will read it.
From all I have been reading, my aggregate "gut feeling" is that we still underestimate the rate of #ClimateChange, as well as the interconnectedness of #TriggerPoints:
“Triggering one tipping point 👉could trigger another in a kind of dangerous domino effect👈,” says #TimLenton at the #UniversityOfExeter in the #UK, the report’s lead author.
“But also 👉these tipping points in the Earth...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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...system could, in turn, trigger damaging tipping points in societies,👈 things like food security crises, mass displacement [#ClimateRefugees]..." 1)
Another issue is that we probably are missing other trigger points.
I'm not sure if it's already listed as such, but in the last week, I read an article that the increasing...
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
#SeaLevelRise #ForestFires #TippingPoints
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...seriousness and frequency of #ForestFires excercabate the likelihood of even more fires in the future, another #ViciousCircle.
Also, just looking at #Germany's forests, the vast majority consists of sick trees 2), prone to insects and fires.
Last but not least, some global regions sit on huge, unstoppable tinder boxes due to coal. 3)
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110123013587695020
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