Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

UNDERVOTED!!!

While climate change for a carbon tax is a profound scam the anthropocene is a legit threat to life on Earth as we know it. (Life will survive, but may not be good for humanity or the other species we love.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's the deal with the anthropocene period anyways? You're just doing your thing and suddenly mother earth goes all crazy with the storms and weather. You can't even say you're just on your anthropocene period and that's why you're mad because she'll just double down on the crazy.

More storms, more flooding, more chaos.

I tell ya, Noah had it right. We need to build an ark and float out of this nonsense. Like last time we need to leave the unicorns ashore. You know who I mean. Two of every animals except the troublesome ones.

If unicorns were so great they'd still be here. I know, they look great in fantasy depictions and little girls and gays go nuts over them, but few people realize they were the dicks of the horse world. Always stabbing people for no reason. And the sex, they were freaks. Many a time olden peoples were like "ummm, that's just not right for you to be doing that with your horn."

And did they listen? Hell no they didn't. And now there are no more unicorns and that wasn't an accident.

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I have personally seen more numbers of all wildlife in the past few years than I've ever seen, and I have always lived in the same area. Even the coastal fishing is better this year after 20 years of decline. I'd like to know more detail of the data this article is using.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It will probably be mostly in the developing world where they have had massive population growth and habitat loss.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure where you're based, but the US and Canada have done a lot the last few decades to help their wildlife recover. For example, the banningg of DDT allowing raptors to recover dramatically. Sadly we are not the world and countries such as China and India have not been so kind to their wildlife. Worldwide fisheries are also generally overfished and are near the point of collapse in many places.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does this mean we can have more cows because there will be less wild animals farting?