Powerpoint by Dr Gail Bradbrook at Fir Farm 2019

1. Heading for Extinction:
Tell the truth and act as if its real
Dr Gail Bradbrook (personal opinions)

2. Extinction threats
Permian-Triassic extinction- runaway climate
change causing methane releases – could happen
again- wiped out 97% of all life

3. • Economic growth will fail- 1deg C of warming costs
1% economic growth
• 1deg C of warming = crop yields decrease by 10%
• Drought affects- at 2.5deg C world cannot produce
the calories needed
• Nourishment in food has dropped by a third since
1950s
• End of century projections: population to grow by
50% and food production to half
• (Also Multi BreadBasket Failure- Latvia, Lithuania
Food shortages trigger social collapse

4. Prof Schellnhuber
For twenty years the Head of the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research, senior advisor to German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, the European Union and
Pope Francis
WHAT LIES BENEATH
The Understatement Of Existential
Climate Risk (2018)

5. Prof Jem Bendell
Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria
Deep Adaptation paper (2018)
downloaded over 450,000 times
Societal collapse = inevitable and soon
Immense Catastrophe = very likely (e.g. massive loss of human life)
Human extinction = possible

6. • Species endangered include one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all
amphibians and 70% of the world's assessed plants
• “Insect Apocalypse” 2017 study showed 75% decline in flying insects
• 2018 study of British mammals: 1 in 5 could be extinct within a decade
• 1 million species as risk of extinction – IPBES 2019
• Wildlife being destroyed by habitat destruction, overhunting, toxic pollution, invasion by
alien species and climate change.
• Ultimate cause is “overpopulation and overconsumption, especially by the rich”
• 60% of animals are livestock for food, 36% humans, only 4% are wild animals
• Soil erosion – UK is 30-40 years away from “fundamental loss of fertility”

7. XR Launch Oct 31st
• Tell the truth
• Net Zero by 2025 and tackle biodiversity loss
• A Citizens Assembly to say how, legally binding & just

8. Renewables
Re-wild
Regenerate
Reduce
Reuse
Reimagine…
REBEL!

9. XR Launch Oct 31st

12. APRIL REBELLION
*Occupation of London over
5 locations over 11 days
*Over 1000 arrests
*130 groups across the UK
*339 groups across the
world in 58 different
countries
BASED IN SOCIAL SCIENCE
AND MOVEMENT THEORY
April Rebellion

15. “You only talk about
moving forwards with the
same bad ideas that got us
into this mess.”
Greta Thunberg

17. Heading for Extinction:
Tell the truth and act as if its real
Dr Gail Bradbrook (personal opinions)