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The Amazon has been rapidly depleted over the years, and the report
says "we are rapidly approaching a tipping point" where the tropical
rainforest "will no longer function."
Much of the loss is due to humans. Land use – deforestation,
agrochemicals and pollution – is the biggest threat to nature, the
report says, with human consumption, technology and poor environmental
governance also playing a significant role.
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NB: Thus, if profiteers, exploitationists, theological and
equality-reparations demand for continued population growth, as well as
environmental destructionists such as Bolsonaro do not cease and desist,
humans not only will experience societal collapse and environmentally
caused population reduction, but perhaps extinction.
https://news.yahoo.com/animal-populations-plummeted-over-last-153822959.html
Wildlife populations have declined dramatically in past 50 years, report
says
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CBS News
Animal populations plummeted over last 50 years, report says
Li Cohen
Fri, October 14, 2022 at 8:38 AM
A shocking new report paints a grim picture of the state of the planet.
The world is facing "double" emergencies, the World Wildlife Fund for
Nature found, as the climate crisis deepens and animal populations are
declining at frighteningly high levels.
Animals across the planet, from deep below the ocean's surface to those
hiding in the trees of the Amazon, are dying off. The World Wildlife
Fund studied more than 5,200 species for its Living Planet Report, and
found that out of the nearly 32,000 populations analyzed, there was an
average decline of 69% since 1970. Up to 2.5% of mammals, fish,
reptiles, birds and amphibians have already gone extinct, the report says.
Scientists named a new species of whale last year. Now, they're "on the
edge of extinction."
And the average population numbers have only gotten worse. Four years
ago, the Living Planet report found a 60% average decline. Then in 2020,
the average hit 68% – a situation that was called an "SOS for nature."
Now, two years later, authors of the report say the continued decline is
a "code red for the planet (and humanity)" as some scientists warn that
Earth is heading toward another mass extinction, mostly due to climate
change.
"The message is clear and the lights are flashing red. Our most
comprehensive report ever on the state of global vertebrate wildlife
populations presents terrifying figures: a shocking two-thirds decline
in the global Living Planet Index less than 50 years," WWF
International's Director General Marco Lambertini says in the report.
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature's Living Planet Index — which tracks
populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians — found an
average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970.
/ Credit: World Wildlife Fund for Nature
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature's Living Planet Index — which tracks
populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians — found an
average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. /
Credit: World Wildlife Fund for Nature
Freshwater populations have been the hardest hit, with an average
decline of 83%, the report found, with habitat loss and migration route
barriers accounting for roughly half the threats they face.
Most of the biodiversity loss is seen in South America, which has lost
94% of its biodiversity, according to the report. The Amazon has been
rapidly depleted over the years, and the report says "we are rapidly
approaching a tipping point" where the tropical rainforest "will no
longer function."
Much of the loss is due to humans. Land use – deforestation,
agrochemicals and pollution – is the biggest threat to nature, the
report says, with human consumption, technology and poor environmental
governance also playing a significant role.
NEW REPORT: According to the 2022 Living Planet Report we’ve seen
an average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970.
Read more: https://t.co/gZwySENeOw. #LPR2022 pic.twitter.com/4PIdY82TyX
— World Wildlife Fund (@World_Wildlife) October 13, 2022
The larger the human population grows and the more economic demand is
sought, the more land will be destroyed for resources, the report says,
and currently, "humans use as many ecological resources as if we lived
on almost two Earths." The U.S., Canada, Australia and Mongolia are
among the worst culprits for over-consumption.
But if broad and significant climate action is not taken quickly, the
report's 89 authors expect that climate change will soon take the helm
at destruction.
"If we are unable to limit warming to 1.5ºC, climate change is likely to
become the dominant cause of biodiversity loss in the coming decades,"
the report says. "Rising temperatures are already driving mass mortality
events, as well as the first extinctions of entire species. Every degree
of warming is expected to increase these losses and the impact they have
on people."
This crisis of nature is an "existential challenge" interlinked with
climate change, Lambertini says, and must be addressed globally. For
climate change, the goal is reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050,
but for biodiversity, he said, we need an equivalent – "nature-positive
by 2030." And both must be addressed with the same ferocity.
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