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Climate Brief:Solving Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”we MUST address Mass Extinctions [1]
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Date: 2022-12-04
If there were no animals-what would happen? There would be no life on earth brain The problem is that mainstream Environmentalists have siloed climate change as a phenomenon apart from the broad Human Ecological Footprint-
Separate from
deforestation, overgrazing of livestock, megafauna kill-off, collapsing fisheries, desertification, depleted freshwater, soil degradation, oceanic garbage gyres, toxification of rainfall with microplastics, and on and on.theintercept.com/...
What would the Earth be like without insects? most of us would starve to death. Approximately 80 percent of all Earth plants are angiosperms, or flowering plants, that require pollination from either bees, butterflies or other pollinating insects. Sometimes the wind and animals are able to assist with pollination, but the majority is done by insects. What Would Happen If All Earth's Insects Vanished?
"There is at present no plan, in any country, anywhere, on a global or national scale, to address extinctions, biodiversity crash, and habitat loss"
When it comes to effects on wildlife, climate change is more like a mule, slow and plodding. Yes, a warmed atmosphere is projected to be a significant factor in the extinction crisis in future decades, but what’s destroying species today is habitat fragmentation and loss, overhunting and overexploitation, agricultural expansion, pollution, and industrial development. It isn’t climate change that caused a 69 percent loss in total wildlife populations between 1970 and 2018, according to a World WildlifeFund study published this year. The cause is too many people demanding too much from ecosystems, or human overshoot of the biophysical carrying capacity of the Earth intercept
Humanity “cannot sustain unlimited growth- in a finite world”
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