Environmental crisis - Biodiversity crisis 

Collapse of the system we live in

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Global wildlife populations have declined by 69% since 1970, WWF warned in a report last month (10/20/2022).

 

Written by 89 authors, the report highlights the planet’s “double emergency” of climate and loss of biodiversity, the driving forces stemming directly from the degradation of land and sea systems, overexploitation of animals and plants, and climate change. Latin America and the Caribbean show the greatest regional decline in average population at 94%, with the report warning that the Amazon rainforest is nearing the point of being nonfunctional.

The planet has warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, which is one of the reasons freshwater species showed the greatest overall decline, at 83%. In 2021, ocean temperatures were the hottest on record for the third year in a row.

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There can be no more hiding, and no more denying. Global heating is supercharging extreme weather at an astonishing speed, and it’s visible in France and beyond. This summer enormous floods ravaged a third of Pakistan and killed 1,500 people.

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The climate disaster is here, and it is just the beginning. There is only transformative action that can slow and even reverse these devastating results. We need to act now or the earth will be deemed.