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What is a #tippingpoint, and why should we care? #Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. #Pesticide run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐⛔️
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#Research finds once a #tippingpoint is reached, an #ecosystem will collapse much faster than first thought. A coral reef ecosystem could take 15 years, the Amazon rainforest 49 years to collapse. Be #vegan 🥦🍅#Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🩸❌
Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, research shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds
Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon MuskSandra Laville (The Guardian)
Rising temperatures could transform plankton and other tiny aquatic organisms into a huge source of #carbon #emissions, a little-known—and potentially catastrophic—climate tipping point that could accelerate #globalwarming.
A study, published Thursday in Functional Ecology, found that rising temperatures cause a sudden shift in these microbes’ eating habits, flipping them from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
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Another climate tipping point to worry about: Plankton
Rising temperatures could turn one of the world's most common organisms into a major source of carbon emissions.Kate Yoder (Grist)