We are a nation of animal lovers who stand by as species face extinction ✍️ While the issue of climate change at least garners some media attention, biodiversity remains the neglected sibling 🔵 JamesGDyke for ipaperviews
One reason is that changes in the climate are easier to understand. The increase in average global temperatures, and its consequences are easier to recognise: more devastating fires, storms and floods. More lethal heatwaves.The United Nations Convention on Biodiversity was established in 1992 and has been ratified by all UN nations with one exception.
International agreement to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 would be an important step. It would be a massive undertaking, but anything less at this stage would barely stem the bleeding. If world leaders do not come to an agreement, the annihilation of the natural world will continue, perhaps unnoticed, so normalised has its destruction become.is often cited as an important moment in the modern sustainability movement. First published in 1962, it alerted the world that widespread pesticide use could potentially lead to a collapse in birdlife.
The acceleration of industrialisation and other trappings of economic growth have created a world where most humans live in urban areas - almost totally separated from the natural world. We go about our lives ignorant or indifferent to the continued liquidation of the biosphere. Many children have never known anything but a silent spring. How can you grieve what you never had? How can you be convinced to fight for it?
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