Humans wipe out 70% of animals in 50 years

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  1. It makes me desperately sad. We are literally an extinction event in motion. There’s a thin sliver of barely existing nature left. It’s literally down to tiny pockets of hedgerows. Everything is annihilated. China got its population under control by strict one child policies because they literally didn’t have enough land to grow food. Population was 2-3 billion after WWII.

    We are at 8 billion these days close to 9. In 40-50 years time it won’t be beyond the realms of possibility the governments impose similar rules.
    Hopefully we can save something for future generations

  2. We need less humans on the planet using less resources. This report plus the fact that 50% of river waterways are destroyed is a hard pill to swallow in 24 hrs.

  3. It’s so sad going for hikes in Ireland. The forests are dead the fields are dead. There are so few animals around and bugs and birds. Tree lines are thin, very few thick forests at all. It’s all so managed and lifeless. And so many pointless scraps of land kept empty and devoid of life. We need a serious rewilding programme

  4. According to David Attenborough, when he first started his career with the BBC in the 50s, there was an estimated 66% cover of wilderness on the planet. Today, that number is 30% and falling every day. He also made grim but very realistic predictions about the next couple of decades.

    A Life on Our Planet. You can watch it for free on YouTube if you haven’t already.

  5. Y’see, news like this is a problem.

    But the *real* big problem? Eveyone in the comments going “yeah, that’s terrible” and then going back to their hypercapitalist existance without making any effort to change it.

  6. It’s mad to think the impact we have on the planet as the dominant species. I know a guy who’s a bit of a foodie, but any time he’s abroad he’ll try sample any adventurous local cuisine. He reckons he’s eaten a ridiculous amount of different animals, birds and fish. He’s proud of that fact and tells people regularly..

  7. They need to curb human population growth as that is mostly what kills off these animals re less habitat for them to live in. Such as, in third world countries where they just can’t sustain their populations with adequate food, etc. I was just watching the misery of some war refugees in a refugee camp, they have been there for 8 years in a modern country that has contraception, yet as they complained about the camp and being stuck there, they had toddlers around them, a baby in their arms, etc. If conditions are that bad and you’re unemployed and living in poverty and contraception is available, why the hell would you have kids? Where is the logic? Most of them also had older kids from before the war started, so why have more?

    Attitudes need to change and common sense needs to reign.

  8. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years

    1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975

    1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide

    1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)

    1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources

    1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985

    1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable

    1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish

    1970s: Killer Bees!

    1970: Ice Age By 2000

    1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By

    1974 and Food Rationing By 1980

    1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030

    1972: New Ice Age By 2070

    1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years

    1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast

    1974: Another Ice Age?

    1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life

    1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent

    1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s

    1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend

    1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes

    1980: Peak Oil In 2000

    1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s

    1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs

    1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)

    1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000

    1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)

    1996: Peak Oil in 2020

    2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is

    2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy

    2002: Peak Oil in 2010

    2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024

    2005: Manhattan Underwater by 2015

    2006: Super Hurricanes!

    2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018

    2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013

    2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World

    2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’

    2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014

    2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015

    2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos

    I haven’t kept up with the more recent fear porn. Yes, we can always do better but it’s been 60+ years that we’ve been listening to these fear porn merchants.

  9. It’s crazy. Worrying stuff happening to our climate and ecosystems. I also think stuff like that Cloud Seeding technology in the UAE will have sever unforseen consequences

  10. So many people agree that it’s awful, but so few do the simplest thing of all to help – stop gardening! If everyone with a garden grew natives, and stopped mowing, tidying, spraying, there’d be a lot more insect and bird life.

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