World wildlife animal populaton drops by 50% since 1970

[Little John]

http://rt.com/news/191696-wwf-report-wildlife-halved/

A potential mass extinction event by any other name. The speed of which I think may be unmatched in the history of life on Earth. Or, at least, not since the end of the Permian.

God help us.

[biffvernon]

And that's just the vertebrates.

Full report here: file:///C:/Users/biffvernon/Downloads/wwf_lpr2014_low_res_for_web_1.pdf

[RogerCO]

and for comparisson human population since 1970 has very nearly doubled (3.7B to 7.2B)
Of course human population will also rapidly shrink if this goes on much longer

[emordnilap]

And that's just the vertebrates.

Full report here: file:///C:/Users/biffvernon/Downloads/wwf_lpr2014_low_res_for_web_1.pdf

Biff, your link is to a file on your personal confuser.

[boisdevie]

http://rt.com/news/191696-wwf-report-wildlife-halved/

A potential mass extinction event by any other name. The speed of which I think may be unmatched in the history of life on Earth. Or, at least, not since the end of the Permian.

God help us.

Yeah, but I really need to fly to Barcelona for a long weekend. It's a basic human right.

[emordnilap]

our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life

[peaceful_life]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... d-wildlife

'Is this not the point at which we shout stop? At which we use the extraordinary learning and expertise we have developed to change the way we organise ourselves, to contest and reverse the trends that have governed our relationship with the living planet for the past 2m years, and that are now destroying its remaining features at astonishing speed?'


On the one hand it drives me to push forward even harder with projects, on the other it rips the very essence from the soul.

I don't even bother updating on climate issues these days.

[Little John]

I wish for a plague to come and cut us down to size. It's our (and the rest of life's) only salvation.

Because we cannot save ourselves.

[peaceful_life]

I wish for a plague to come and cut us down to size. It's our (and the rest of life's) only salvation.

Because we cannot save ourselves.

It's been here a while in the meme of 'growth', another symptom plague would be pointless if it doesn't also destroy that meme.

[emordnilap]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... d-wildlife

'Is this not the point at which we shout stop? At which we use the extraordinary learning and expertise we have developed to change the way we organise ourselves, to contest and reverse the trends that have governed our relationship with the living planet for the past 2m years, and that are now destroying its remaining features at astonishing speed?'


On the one hand it drives me to push forward even harder with projects, on the other it rips the very essence from the soul.

I don't even bother updating on climate issues these days.

GM has it almost spot-on, as usual. The article, though angry, is not angry enough. A lot of people have to get a lot angrier.

Chances? Zilch.