Human selfishness leads to nearly 70% reduction in animals

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Climate crisis, Environment, ethics, greed, Mindless idiocy, Nature, News

Extreme human overpopulation, habitat loss, pollution, the climate crisis and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources have caused the loss of most of the planet’s animals. The callous insensitivity toward other creatures that has led to this apocalypse is monstrous.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe

An interactive map about extinct animals:

https://extinctionmap.org/index.html

An interesting story that makes a case for storytelling to save the planet:

https://www.wired.com/story/environment-climate-change-storytelling/

Wildlife extinctions are all around us. That's why we just launched a groundbreaking interactive map highlighting lost species from all 50 states.

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— Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) October 19, 2022

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— Defenders of Wildlife (@Defenders) October 20, 2022