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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds.
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world's foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation.
The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.
"We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff" said Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF. "If there was a 60% decline in the human population, that would be equivalent to emptying North America, South America, Africa, Europe, China and Oceania. That is the scale of what we have done."
"This is far more than just being about losing the wonders of nature, desperately sad though that is," he said. "This is actually now jeopardising the future of people. Nature is not a 'nice to have' – it is our life-support system."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday October 31 2018, @03:40PM (5 children)
Ok, you're the control freak who gets in charge because you are the control freak. You get presented two options:
1. tax independent people to fund an army of welfare recipients who get dependent on the system, that is, you
2. tax independent people to avoid them becoming too big, to fund a series of projects which will result in decent jobs, increasing the number of independent people and decreasing the need of taxation. The needy get food, blanket, roof and no money, and pay with work hours.
1 is and always has been a no brainer. Reducing population is just a way to postpone the next inevitable crisis.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @03:53PM (4 children)
I reject putting a control freak in power; I reject taxation as an acceptable way to organize society's resources.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:35PM (3 children)
Doesn't matter what you reject. You'll be among the first culls, because your attitude sucks. But, since we live in a free society, you won't be gagged. You can exercise your freedom of speech as you are strapped to the guerney to be euthanized.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @06:56PM (2 children)
You can't speak of a "free society", and in the same breath talk of forcibly culling a person because his "attitude sucks".
Either you're pointing out the absurdity of that position, or you are in fact delusional.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:18PM (1 child)
Since you're AC it is hard to say exactly but I get the feeling you were the one saying we should kill off the poor people and save the rich because we want to preserve 1st world society. That insane idea is considered in the discussion until it gets back to YOU getting culled and suddenly you want to talk about delusional?
Get fucked you stupid ass. We all get your points and as usual they are uninformed reactionary garbage with little thought about the real world scenarios.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @07:31PM
Nobody has said any such thing.