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Monday, May 6th, 2019

Landmark UN Report to Show ‘Transformational Change’ Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future

Author:     Jon Queally
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     Saturday, May 04, 2019
 Link: Landmark UN Report to Show ‘Transformational Change’ Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future
Stephan:   I was just sent the most amazing climate change denier nonsense; it is hard for me to believe that people with IQs above their waist size actually believe what is put out by the carbon power industry and its Republican supporters, and their alternative media,  but they do. A sure tip-off that it is crap is when they cite Al Gore's increase in wealth, and state that CO2 is a naturally occurring substance and its increase is good for plants, and totally ignore and dismiss fact-based reports like this.

The dried up bed of Wayoh Reservoir near Bolton as the heatwave continues across the UK on July 23, 2018 in Bolton, England. A United Nations report scheduled for official release on Monday will say that up to 1 million species face extinction as a result of human activity.
Credit; Christopher Furlong/Getty

A new landmark United Nations report on biodiversity set for release on Monday will say that a perilous and miserable future awaits the natural world and human civilization unless we rapidly bring an end to humanity’s destructive “business as usual” approach to the economy, food production, and energy usage.

Signaling the need for urgent “transformative changes” in order to save humanity and the natural world, the 1,800-page report and a separate executive summary will represent the first time the UN has published such an exhaustive report on the state of Nature.

As Agence France-Presse, which obtained a draft of the conclusions, reports Saturday that “The bombshell Summary for Policymakers… makes for very grim reading.”

According to AFP’s review of the draft report and the summary, the […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    If we love the Earth and everything on it, we must save it from the capitalist pigs and the Republican Party from destroying the Earth and everything on it.
    We have a choice: save the Earth or die with everything upon it.