Volunteers cleaning up in Benetússer, Alfafar and Catarroja, Spain after the recent floods, credit Wikipedia.
In answer to the few people who have written and asked me if I'm dead, no, not yet, I have pneumonia and God willing there is life in the ol' dog yet!
Red Lines Crossed
There are absolutely astonishing events happening in space and especially here on Earth this year, which because of other—"more important" news events, are being dismissed by our one-track media. (money, elections, wars and celebs for instance) we don't get to hear about other, equally important stuff. However, incredible "no turning back, red line crossed" catastrophic incidents are happening around us every day—and no international or national media outlets, governments or leaders feel it necessary to mention them.
Eight years ago I began reporting on wildlife decline:
Wildlife is on the brink! Biodiversity in crisis as a comprehensive global appraisal of the damage starts today but is it too little too late? Our planet has crossed the tipping point. By 2020 two thirds of all wild animals who once lived in the world will be dead. The world's primates face an "extinction crisis" with 60% of species now threatened with extinction Unprecedented death of millions of tons of marine life around the world’s oceans and waterways . . . Full Story
Last month a new appraisal was released by the WWF:
They claimed—Wildlife populations are plummeting. The 2024 Living Planet Index revealed the scale of the nature crisis. Between 1970 and 2020, the size of wildlife populations plummeted by 73% on average and not 60% as forcasted in 2017. This is based on almost 35,000 population trends across 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. Regionally, the worst losses happened in Latin America (-95%). Freshwater species experienced the greatest decline – a shocking 85%. See graff below.
Nature is disappearing: The average size of wildlife populations has fallen by a staggering 73% The Living Planet Report 2024 highlights the average change in observed population sizes of 5,495 vertebrate species. It shows a decline of 73% between 1970 and 2020. WWF Report here Can you imagine the worldwide panic if 73% of humans had disappeared since 1970?
This disaster has generally not been reported mainly because WWF, the UN, and other leading government organisations, experts, and scientists are all reading from the same page—claiming, the stats are staggering, but, we still have time to fix the problem! This kind of attitude is hard to swallow when one considers, extinct is extinct, (done bun, can't be undone).
The very same people have the same laid-back notion, that climate change will somehow slow down and repair itself, which in my humble opinion is absolute tosh, and I'm sure they know this but they keep us dumbed-down, feeding us lies to keep us from panic social uprising and rioting.
For instance, just a couple of weeks after the WWF report, another study claimed the world's trees were sliding towards extinction. Scientists assessing dangers posed to the world’s trees revealed that more than a "third of tree species are facing extinction" (a third of all species!!!) in the wild. The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together. This is according to the latest update to the official extinction red list. The news was released in Cali, Colombia, where world leaders met at the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, to assess progress on a landmark rescue plan for nature. Trees are vital for life, (DUH!) helping to clean the air and soak up carbon emissions, as well as providing homes for thousands of birds, insects and mammals (and human beings).
1970 - ironically the ecology began to decline the same year EPA created.
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