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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 31 2018, @04:18PM (1 child)
And, besides the fact that Muslims have a large birthrate, you know who make up a huge number of immigrants to the West? Muslims.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 01 2018, @12:39AM
So true. Big Caravan of People from Honduras now coming across Mexico and heading to our Weak Laws Boarder, had better be stopped before it gets there. Unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in -- too many for Guantanamo Bay. Must also stop foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Muslim countries that allow this to happen.