Climate and Ecological Crisis: Heading for Extinction

We are entering a critical decade in our history, in which a failure to enact unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized societies may lead to a catastrophic and irreversible ecological collapse. In this video I survey the most relevant scientific facts related with our current climate and ecological crisis, and urge all members of society to take immediate action for systemic change.

All scientific facts and predictions presented in this video are extracted from the mainstream scientific literature on the topic, accessible through the references below.
1. The climate crisis

[Oreskes, 2004] http://bit.ly/30y8Zx0
[IPCC AR4, 2007] http://bit.ly/2Q6E7ih
[Ritchie, 2019] http://bit.ly/30nOfYr
[Scripps, 2019] http://bit.ly/2Q4CBND
[NASA, 2019] https://go.nasa.gov/2W7n05d

2. The Paris Agreement

[UNFCCC, 2015] http://bit.ly/35xobMF
[Schleussner, 2016] http://bit.ly/2Q5Uagn

3. CO2 Concentration

[NASA, 2019] https://go.nasa.gov/2WM8NIg
[Scripps, 2019] http://bit.ly/2Q4CBND
[Willeit, 2019] http://bit.ly/2Vvzzmz
[Steffen, 2015] http://bit.ly/2VELDqt

4. Carbon Inequality

[Oxfam, 2015] https://bit.ly/2ENRCxd

5. Global Temperatures

[IPCC SR15, 2018] http://bit.ly/2HAjCrH
[Vuuren, 2011] http://bit.ly/2HQjtiL
[Minx, 2018] http://bit.ly/2r80a00
[Thomson, 2011] http://bit.ly/2VN1GTi
[Masui, 2011] http://bit.ly/2W2chKi
[Riahi, 2011] http://bit.ly/2LW5kFU
[Raftery, 2011] https://go.nature.com/2XahVGU

6. Sea Level Rise

[NOAA, 2019] http://bit.ly/2kp000L
[NASA, 2019] https://go.nasa.gov/2WPUhPB
[Kopp, 2017] http://bit.ly/2Hqdt17
[Climate Central, 2019] http://bit.ly/2YBa7Ot
[Neumann, 2015] http://bit.ly/30wCKOs
[UNHCR, 2019] https://bit.ly/2Q7KH8q

7. Extreme Weather Events

[Yuan, 2018] https://bit.ly/34xYXg4
[Sun, 2018] https://bit.ly/35Ruafq
[Miller, 2013] http://bit.ly/2VViF5N
[Wiel, 2017] http://bit.ly/2VW7cTJ
[Oldenborgh, 2017] http://bit.ly/2HL6i2r

8. Cyclone Nargis

[Sparks, 2011] https://bit.ly/2Mf5Ooh
[Graham, 2010] http://bit.ly/2LOJDaV

9. Feedback Loops

[NASA, 2019] https://go.nasa.gov/395PMqK

10. Arctic Sea Ice

[Pistone, 2014] http://bit.ly/2LY4wAv
[Wang, 2012] http://bit.ly/2VBTCzR
[Pattyn, 2018] https://go.nature.com/2KRzGqQ

11. Permafrost Thaw

[Lewkowicz, 2019] https://go.nature.com/2we0pFv
[Branda, 2016] https://bit.ly/2SL48Dw
[Whiteman, 2013] https://go.nature.com/2HF8vwi

12. Wildfires

[Pechony, 2010] https://bit.ly/2JwNFBZ
[Knorr, 2016] http://bit.ly/2Ekgs9a
[Turetsky, 2010] https://go.nature.com/2Hh6INA
[Westervelte, 2019] https://n.pr/390PnWD
[Paraguassu, 2019] https://reut.rs/2Z8k7QP
[Turkewitz, 2019] https://nyti.ms/2Ezz4St

13. Tipping Cascades

[Steffen, 2018] https://bit.ly/2STFn8T

14. Other Ecological Pressures

[Jambeck, 2015] http://bit.ly/2VZdzVl
[Parker, 2018] http://bit.ly/2JQQ77o
[Watts, 2019] http://bit.ly/2Vp7Pjm
[WWF, 2019] https://bit.ly/34GGJJa
[Crowther, 2015] https://go.nature.com/2F3lbux
[Morgan, 2005] http://bit.ly/2VlkOCL
[Nunez, 2010] https://on.natgeo.com/2Jk3lZN
[Denchak, 2018] https://on.nrdc.org/2JiOejr
[Burek, 2016] http://bit.ly/2wwkcjE
[CNN, 2019] https://cnn.it/2S5CowG
[Gettleman, 2019] https://nyti.ms/2Z4luA3
[Tigchelaar, 2018] http://bit.ly/2vVBkzf
[Scheelbeek, 2018] http://bit.ly/2JkgdiM
[Zhu, 2018] http://bit.ly/2HqJMvo
[Mollica, 2018] http://bit.ly/2Hmyicx
[Sunday, 2016] https://go.nature.com/2Hk8jm0
[McNutt, 2013] http://bit.ly/2vXRTdO

15. Mass Extinction Events

[Greshko, 2019] https://on.natgeo.com/2rXixoU
[Branda, 2016] https://bit.ly/2SL48Dw

16. The Sixth Mass Extinction

[WWF Report, 2018] https://wwf.to/31B6lqu
[UN Report, 2019] https://bit.ly/2Jjc51D
[Ceballos, 2015] http://bit.ly/2JBZ7w9

17. Possibility of Human Extinction

[Xu, 2017] https://bit.ly/30a2nEP

18. Sociopolitical Context

[IPCC SR15, 2018] http://bit.ly/2WrNxKG
[Adorno, 1950] http://bit.ly/2s59O3K
[Britt, 2003] http://bit.ly/2JzuRmf
[Pompa, 2019] http://bit.ly/34MSNcd
[Rappleye, 2019] https://nbcnews.to/2EF8Td2
[Macaraeg, 2018] http://bit.ly/38WQZjX
[Haag, 2019] https://nyti.ms/36VUhSE
[BBC News, 2019] https://bbc.in/36StIxR
[Riemen, 2018] http://bit.ly/2EAzvMt

19. Scientists' Opinion

[Bendell, 2018] https://bit.ly/2VfmT2X
[Spratt, 2018] http://bit.ly/2WA8xf3
[Anderson, 2018] http://bit.ly/2HAMy2R
[Marvel, 2018] http://bit.ly/2EPAb0R

20. Acknowledgements

The structure of this presentation is based on the first part of Dr. Gail Bradbrook's video titled "Heading for Extinction and What to Do About It" (https://bit.ly/2ZztZTL).

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