Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, one of the most exhaustive global studies on the subject ever conducted finds.
This is *us*, people: you + me. It's up to all of us to get into the fight for the natural world. 🌏
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/26/human-link-biodiversity-loss-species-ecosystems-climate-pollution-eawag-study-nature-aoe
This is *us*, people: you + me. It's up to all of us to get into the fight for the natural world. 🌏
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/26/human-link-biodiversity-loss-species-ecosystems-climate-pollution-eawag-study-nature-aoe
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What's harder to understand is why the finger always points at the poor nations with the lowest consumption of animals, the lowest GHG emissions, etc.
Yes, it is an important factor, but it's also frequently used by (white) people in rich, high-consuming countries to shift blame to mostly dark-skinned people in poorer, low-consumption parts of the world.
So there can often (but not always) be a racist element to raising it.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishrainforest.bsky.social/post/3lldttsxork2a
When I was a kid I had 1 pair of shoes and 1 pair of sneakers.
Now?
Kids have multiple pairs of shoes.
(Just an example).
And they're very far from the only human forces driving nature loss. We can't blame the sheep-bared uplands of Ireland and Britain on those, for example.
But somehow they are going to consent to being depopulated?
But it's more likely they'll join an effort to lessen their environmental impact than volunteer to be snuffed out, so we better hope we're wrong.
Competing with the low-cost food production is challenging work 💪.
By the way, it is highly likely we will shrink population much faster than that based on current projections.