1/12 🧵 All quotes below from “Fact Sheet--Multiple Emergencies” 6p bit.ly/4bhE6DC and its source “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” (1285p) bit.ly/4k7z8Li +below @uolpress.bsky.social‬ @edinburghup.bsky.social‬ @reuters.com @wsj.com @globalnews.ca @japantimes.co.jp #IWD2026 #iwd

2/12 “The best we can accomplish, is 1.5°C w/ overshoot (as) we have already loaded so much energy/heat into the Earth system, that *even if we stopped all emissions today* we are already committed to warming exceeding 1.5°C." (Dr. Johan Rockstrom) link in 3/12 +below @exeter.ac.uk ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪@wsj

3/12 Dr. Rockstrom “… in the midst of the climate crisis, we are undermining the capacity of the living biosphere to buffer the strain...” +below Dr Euan Nisbet “Wetlands are turning on" interview bit.ly/3vafGtk (11:50-16:40) re journal article bit.ly/42VF4Qn +below @stanfordpress.bsky.social‬

4/12 “In 2023 and 2024 world’s forests absorbed only a quarter of the carbon dioxide they did in the beginning of the 21st century…” (World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch) “… the Arctic tundra (has shifted) from a net carbon sink into a source.” 2024 Arctic Report Card @thehindu.com

5/12 “… the study finds 6 tipping elements could become ‘likely’ + a further 4 ‘possible’, if global temps rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial temps. And 13 tipping elements will be either ‘likely’ or ‘possible’ if planet warms by 2.6C, as expected under current climate policies” @wto.org @ucl.ac.uk

6/12 “Current high-energy consumer lifestyles were designed before we understood the very serious nature of the climate challenge….” “Global advertising revenues will surpass $1 trillion for the first time in 2024…” + Al Gore C40 Cities Conference (2019) bit.ly/30EADKl @nupress.bsky.social‬ #iwd

7/12 “Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to grow by 15% per year over next 2 years, reaching $9.5 trillion USD globally this year and $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025... This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history…” +below @apnews.com @ssir.org @wsj

8/12 “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.” (IPBES) @brisunipress.bsky.social‬ @who.int @inn.org #IWD2026

9/12 Yes, clean energy, but “The most productive sustainable systems imaginable… would never sustain large-scale cities, global economy, and Western material affluence…” “Energy and Permaculture” David Holmgren bit.ly/3m1uP7t +below @greencb.bsky.social @impactalpha.com @appvoices.org #IWD2026 #iwd

10/12 “To achieve higher levels of Honesty and Responsibility, we need smaller habitats and less complex cultures.” #LocalCommunityEd Solution Hubs can build circular economies which will align “votes” of time, energy, and money with #Peace #ResilientEcosystems +below @ucddublin.bsky.social @wsj

11/12 Thru #LocalCommunityEd, residents can gain awareness of how all investments of time, energy, money (“votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such "votes" +below @iea.org @grist.org