The UK has some of the lowest biodiversity in Europe.
And once our animals are gone they are gone.
European badgers arent social for example so when our badgers are extinct, thats it. And badgers here are clan based with each new generation adding rooms to the sett meaning a badger sett can be centuries old.
We claim to love wildlife in this country, but ask someone to leave a patch of dandelions or stop using weedkiller or slug pellets and see how far you get.
Poison controlled manicured grass is as beneficial to nature as concrete.
The last 60 years has absolutely destroyed almost every population of anything.
Its an absolute horror of extermination of life habitat loss.
2- Biodiversity Collapse
A 2019 “Warning of a Climate Emergency,” was signed by over 11,000 scientists, cited an increase in human population and the world’s GDP as factors leading to ecological decline. Even if climate change was contained today, biodiversity loss would still occur.
Every scientific indicator we have tells us it slipped long ago. We’re in overshoot. The degradation of the biophysical foundations of life doesn’t happen overnight; this is payback for just the shit we were pumping out 50 years ago. It only gets worse tomorrow, even if every human being on the planet dies tonight. We’re just watching the inexorable death spiral of all ecosystems and pretending, if we just sort our plastic bottles and buy electric cars, that things are still salvageable.
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The UK has some of the lowest biodiversity in Europe.
And once our animals are gone they are gone.
European badgers arent social for example so when our badgers are extinct, thats it. And badgers here are clan based with each new generation adding rooms to the sett meaning a badger sett can be centuries old.
We claim to love wildlife in this country, but ask someone to leave a patch of dandelions or stop using weedkiller or slug pellets and see how far you get.
Poison controlled manicured grass is as beneficial to nature as concrete.
The last 60 years has absolutely destroyed almost every population of anything.
Its an absolute horror of extermination of life habitat loss.
2- Biodiversity Collapse
A 2019 “Warning of a Climate Emergency,” was signed by over 11,000 scientists, cited an increase in human population and the world’s GDP as factors leading to ecological decline. Even if climate change was contained today, biodiversity loss would still occur.
[the Planet is Dying](https://i.imgur.com/h8h3ZFJ.png)
>average 50% decline in monitored vertebrate wildlife populations 2010
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>average 69% decline in monitored vertebrate wildlife populations 2020
– [UN Secretary General](https://www.wwf.eu/?7780966/WWF-Living-Planet-Report-Devastating-69-drop-in-wildlife-populations-since-1970)
“Slipping”
Every scientific indicator we have tells us it slipped long ago. We’re in overshoot. The degradation of the biophysical foundations of life doesn’t happen overnight; this is payback for just the shit we were pumping out 50 years ago. It only gets worse tomorrow, even if every human being on the planet dies tonight. We’re just watching the inexorable death spiral of all ecosystems and pretending, if we just sort our plastic bottles and buy electric cars, that things are still salvageable.