Stephan: Like ignorant children playing in the garden as a tornado sweeps down on them we simply are not paying appropriate attention to what is happening with climate change. Our technologies are destroying the earth's matrix of life, and that has the potential to destroy our civilization.
This picture taken on October 18, 2018 shows newborn green turtles heading to the sea after being released from a protected area on Thameehla Island. – Peril plagues the young life of a baby turtle in Myanmar; if the crabs don’t get them before they scramble from the beach to the sea, poachers or fishing trawlers may do – while habitat destruction also decimates their numbers. Myanmar’s waters boast five of the world’s seven sea turtle species, including the critically endangered hawksbill, the endangered green turtle as well as the olive ridley, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, all listed as vulnerable. Credit: YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty
Even as American politicians uselessly quibble over whether climate change is real (it is) and how humanity should address it, the natural world does not need humanity to humansplain to them that the Earth is becoming uninhabitable.
According to a recent report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a United Nations body,
P.S>: We should never have let ANY species go extinct. We humans will go extinct on this path and will not be the last species to go, and it may be sooner than most people think!
I totally agree with you Stephan!
P.S>: We should never have let ANY species go extinct. We humans will go extinct on this path and will not be the last species to go, and it may be sooner than most people think!