The 30% protection target sounds like a good idea, but those having listened to the #OurLandOurNature conference by @Survival in #Marseille yesterday know better. The @IUCN congress seems very tempted by the idea that financialising could save it: it won't. pic.twitter.com/J4jBrpIo4a
— Martin Pigeon (@marpinoir) September 3, 2021
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Once again, the recently issued Sixth Report of the IPCC on global warming paints a rather grim picture of our common global future. The report, written by 200 scientists and approved by 195 countries, came at a time when sections of Turkey, Italy, Siberia, and Greece were still burning with some areas suffering from temperatures More
We are standing in an extinction event. Many of us started noticing it when the insects began to vanish in large numbers right after the turn of the century. I’ll never forget the day the trucker called into my radio show. It was probably around 14 years ago, and he identified himself as a long-haul trucker who regularly ran a coast-to-coast route from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest dozens of times a year. More
Source: Civilization-Ending Climate Change Is Knocking On Our Door – CounterPunch.org
“Humanity can’t afford to lose any more of the world’s forgotten fishes or the freshwater ecosystems they inhabit.”
San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. The long-running global struggle to prevent extinction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal claimed its first human life here on Jan. 2, in the conflict between illegal fishing and conservation of the vaquita porpoise. Fisherman Mario Garcia Toledo, 56, died after suffering massive injuries when his skiff collided with More
Source: The Race to Save the Vaquita Porpoise From Extinction – CounterPunch.org
“At a time of rapid biodiversity loss, we are failing to access the treasure chest of incredible diversity on offer and missing a huge opportunity for our generation.”
Source: New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction | Common Dreams News
Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine
Source: From Restraining Orders to Assassinations, the Dangerous Work of Saving the Monarchs | Boston Review
At several points in the history of our planet, increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused extreme global warming, prompting the majority of species on Earth to die out.In the past, these events were triggered by a huge volcanic eruption or asteroid impact. Now, Earth is
If, as some observers worry, the United States is undergoing an accelerated transition to full authoritarian class rule in the Donald Trump years, then the events of last week may be considered critical by later historians permitted to chronicle what happened. Another Democratic Gift to “the Most Dangerous Criminal in History” On Wednesday, the mock More
Source: About Last Week – and the Accelerated Drives to Extinction and Fascism – CounterPunch.org
