We're seeing fewer decent-paid jobs and the need for universal basic income as we install more machines that replace former high-level work

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#BasicIncome #technology #AI #TippingPoint #PaidWork

Problems accumulate silently for decades because their effects are masked by the inertia of the system. But eventually, you hit an inflection point where mounting pressure forces a rapid phase transition. The status quo collapses overnight. That’s what Lenin meant about there being decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.

#Lenin #Sociology #Economics #SystemsThinking #TippingPoint

So far, rich countries have pledged just $788.8m to the UN’s Loss and Damage fund. That’s 44 US cents for each of the 1.8 billion citizens in the Climate Vulnerable Forum nations: the sum total of our “compensation” for the disruption, disaster and death we have caused.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

the carbon level has reached 426.68 parts per million. Well over scientists’ so called “safe” limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading towards oblivion.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves

Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now

^{Paul Brown (The Guardian)}

The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found.

Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

The political distortion of net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate the primary cause of our overheating planet – fossil fuels.

Instead of focusing on economic incentives to encourage the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, climate policies are heavily reliant on feelgood “nature positive” solutions that aim to neutralise carbon emissions by essentially planting trees instead of reducing industrial emissions.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

^{Joëlle Gergis (The Guardian)}

Earth has hit its first climate tipping point, scientists warn sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…

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Earth has hit its first climate tipping point, scientists warn

Global scientists warn that humanity is on the verge of crossing irreversible climate thresholds, with coral reefs already at their tipping point and polar ice sheets possibly beyond recovery.

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The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%.

At one end, the wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.

At the other, a citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.

In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target in the Paris climate agreement, with “devastating consequences” for the world.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

^{Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)}

No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found.

Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them, according to the research by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds

‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

^{Graham Readfearn (The Guardian)}

'Straw that broke the camel's back': British royal given the boot over Epstein revelation

#RoyalResignation #TrumpEpsteinTies #DonaldTrump #DukeOfYork #TippingPoint

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‘Straw that broke the camel’s back’: British royal given the boot over Epstein revelation

Prince Andrew has been booted from royal life according to a statement from Buckingham Palace on Friday following new revelations uncovered this week about his past relationship with discouraged financier Jeffrey Epstein.

^{Alexander Willis (Raw Story)}

Planet’s first catastrophic climate #tippingPoint reached, report says, with #coralReefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

^{Graham Readfearn (The Guardian)}

The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown.

In the report, all of the other six breached boundaries – climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows, and novel entities – showed a worsening trend.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

The tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

Fossil fuel extractors will fight tooth and nail to prevent market forces from operating. Their enormous profits allow them to bend politics to their will, attacking and maligning their critics, sowing disinformation and denial and assisting the election of those who favour them.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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Fossil fuel extractors bend the world to their will – help fund the journalism that exposes them

Across the globe, oil, gas and coal companies use an ever-widening set of tactics to crush competition and opposition. With the world’s most powerful man helping them at every turn, it’s critical we reveal their full impact

^{George Monbiot (The Guardian)}

Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events, including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, has not raised awareness of the threats posed by climate change. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called “boiling frog effect” makes gradual change difficult to spot.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

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‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study

Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis

^{David Hambling (The Guardian)}