Global Vertebrate Population On Course To Drop Two Thirds By 2020
This is why we need greener, more sustainable technology. It’s not just us humans that suffer from pollution and all of the activities surrounding it.
Besides showing empathy and concern for others, we have to remember that we depend on biodiversity. Without it, we would all be dead pretty quickly.
Originally shared by Jaana Nyström
No Thanks To Humans: Global Vertebrate Population On Course To Drop Two Thirds By 2020
“Rising human activity is destroying global vertebrate wildlife populations, which have seen a 58 percent drop in the last 40 years, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The report titled “Living Planet Report 2016: Risk and Resilience in a New Era” scanned the population decline in wildlife between 1970 and 2012.
Covering 14,000 vertebrate populations of 3,700 species during the period, the report also took inputs from the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network.
Slamming the rising human activity as responsible for the declining numbers, the WWF report warns that wildlife populations will drop further by two-thirds in 2020 unless immediate intervention is made.
The report notes the drastic decline in the numbers reported in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The most palpable drop in animal population has been in the lakes, rivers and freshwater systems by 81 percent…”
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Human population growth is the greatest threat to other vertebrate species through habitat destruction and disruption of the food chain. The species at greatest risk are those that pose a physical danger to humans or compete with us for food.
The invertebrates are in worse shape!
Thank god for innovative nuclear power like the neglected MSR last tested in 1974! Gotta get that online immediately! Wind and solar are good too- but we also need nuclear to be making any kind of difference by 2020.
Carl Page
The total lifetime cost of a nuclear power plant for electricity generation puts that industry out of reach for all but the wealthiest nations. The problems with wildlife habitats experiencing the greatest vertebrate and invertebrate population damage are located in the poorest nations.
We humans are a link in the chain. As nature goes, so do we.
So sad. Like us, the other living being have right to live. We are destroying harmony in nature by our selfish acts.
Rezwana Ali
Before civilization, Humans lived with nature, but since the development of civilization the purpose of our existence has been to overcome or convert nature to our desires and benefit regardless of the consequences.
Mac Baird yeah! you’r right. But it’s backfiring now. Our existence depends on others too.
I wonder if the dinosaurs felt this way?
Robert Walden
Good question, but that was the previous Mass Extinction Event. We own this one.
Mac Baird Don’t forget how short and brutal life was before civilization was. No matter how good things are immoral corrupt bad guys can and will ruin it.
When the water is gone…we follow. Wake up people.