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Portent of doom: Collapsing wildlife populations
Oct 12th, 2024 at 9:54am
 
Humans are displacing all wildlife as populations fall by 75% in 50 years and 95% in some regions.

Every day the world faces a greater threat of collapse of life, including humans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/collapsing-wildlife-populati...

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Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns
As average population falls reach 95% in some regions, experts call for urgent action but insist ‘nature can recover’

Patrick Greenfield, Thu 10 Oct 2024 07.26 BST
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Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse.

Latin America and the Caribbean recorded the steepest average declines in recorded wildlife populations, with a 95% fall, according to the WWF and the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) biennial Living Planet report. They were followed by Africa with 76%, and Asia and the Pacific at 60%. Europe and North America recorded comparatively lower falls of 35% and 39% respectively since 1970.

Scientists said this was explained by much larger declines in wildlife populations in Europe and North America before 1970 that were now being replicated in other parts of the world. They warned that the loss could quicken in future years as global heating accelerates, triggered by tipping points in the Amazon rainforest, Arctic and marine ecosystems, which could have catastrophic consequences for nature and human society.

Matthew Gould, ZSL’s chief executive, said the report’s message was clear: “We are dangerously close to tipping points for nature loss and climate change. But we know nature can recover, given the opportunity, and that we still have the chance to act.”
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Reply #1 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 9:46pm
 
Too many people - just look at the trailer trash we get here.
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Reply #2 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:22pm
 
The single thing you can do to reduce destruction of ecosystems, is to go vegan.

Are you a vegan, LTYC?
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Reply #3 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:28pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 9:46pm:
Too many people - just look at the trailer trash we get here.


Trailer trash eat "low on the hog." For instance chicken wings or chicken legs. Someone else is paying for the breast and chicken thighs, which is what keeps the industry alive.

Or let's talk about cattle. There is massive amounts of meat on an ox, but it's all subsidized by steak and loin. Poor people aren't funding the industry, they're buying the leftovers.
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Reply #4 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:30pm
 
Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:22pm:
The single thing you can do to reduce destruction of ecosystems, is to go vegan.

Are you a vegan, LTYC?


Nah - he's the village vegetable.  Stick around - you'll learn the ropes.  You could get all toey like Skanka and methra and read in to anything anyone says without thinking about it too much... and pretend to own some high moral ground while being destructive and vicious in reality.... or you could go with the flow. Methra had to 'make peace' with her local houso Abos/Kokonuts etc lest they home invade her etc; Skanka tries hard to be the intellectual superior while not understanding a single thing... LTYC - who perhaps once a fortnight offers a sane post - is the Resident Idiot De Ville...

Everyone here is 'gifted' in some way.... vox populi, innit?

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Reply #5 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:31pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:30pm:
Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:22pm:
The single thing you can do to reduce destruction of ecosystems, is to go vegan.

Are you a vegan, LTYC?


Nah - he's the village vegetable.  Stick around - you'll learn the ropes. 


Yeah, not interested in conversation with assholes.

I define "asshole" as someone who can't get past the first sentences without making a personal insult.
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Reply #6 - Oct 12th, 2024 at 10:42pm
 
You can also reduce destruction of ecosystems, by funding a charity. You can still eat meat, grown under Australian conditions (it's harder for Americans who import meat) and make an offset by giving to charity.

Personally, I live in a household which eats meat (beef, pork, chicken and fish) so it's hard to go vegan. I do sometimes put a vegan or lacto-vegetarian meal on the table.

And no, I do not financially support ecological charities. I'm just saying you can, and still eat meat. If it's that important to you.
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Reply #7 - Oct 13th, 2024 at 6:03am
 
humans and their attitudes are pretty divorced from nature

that goes for the left and the right

the right want to dominate nature

the left want to view nature as the all embracing mother earth , when really nature is the brutal evolutionary blowtorch

as an example, look at the role of the apex predator in nature

the wolf amongst the buffalo

the wolf is there (put their by nature) to demolish the weak and the sickly and the old.

the shark is put there to kill the sick fish, the weak fish, the diseased fish.

mother nature requires of every organism that they are contantly striving and improving and taking "personal responsibility" (dirty words to the left).

what happened in america when they removed the wolves?

the bison herds got sicker and sicker and developed diseases . some animals developed prion diseases, immune diseases, metabolic syndromes like our diabetes.



Covid was a very cool example.
Covid only took out those who were living a sick lifestyle, not in sync with nature.
the fat, the sugar addicted, the unfit, the sickly, the old.

If you were an organsim fit for purpose (in mother natures eyes), then you were untroubled.

Did human kind , recognising this obvious fact, then get in syn with nature?

nope.

the entirety of the planet lined up to fight mother nature on what mother nature thought was obviously required.

have we seen the end of this?

nope

one thing farming has taught me is that when you fight mother nature , you lose but only 100 % of the time.

i think we are approaching soil fertility collapse and we are going to see a mass starvation event

thats fine by me, as it would have been fine by me if i was 90 and got covid and passed on

as long as people refuse to live in sync with nature, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution

and believing that we can have mega cities full of "consumers" (takers) and that this is ok , is obviously nuts.

mother nature will fight back and good on her

the urban chodes can resort to cannabalism  Embarrassed
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Reply #8 - Oct 13th, 2024 at 8:58am
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 9:46pm:
Too many people - just look at the trailer trash we get here.


Grappler is the epitome of trailer trash.

If Australia had no welfare provision Grappler would be living on the street or in a hole in the ground.
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Reply #9 - Oct 13th, 2024 at 9:14am
 
This is not news. it has been happening in ever alarming increments for decades.

We humans have unsustainably plundered this earth.

Tell them all you want. Present all the data, hear from all the scientists.

it doesn't matter.

Onward we march to unsustainability.
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Reply #10 - Oct 13th, 2024 at 10:45am
 
Are ticks and leaches wild life?
What about mosquitos, flees, flies and biting midges?
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Re: Portent of doom: Collapsing wildlife populations
Reply #11 - Oct 13th, 2024 at 6:50pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Oct 12th, 2024 at 9:46pm:
Too many people - just look at the trailer trash we get here.


Not actually true, Grappler.
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