Posted on 03/23/2018 8:03:14 AM PDT by rktman
Human activities are causing an alarming decline in the variety of plant and animal life on Earth and jeopardizing food, clean water and energy supplies, a U.N.-backed study of biodiversity said on Friday.
Pollution, climate change and forest clearances to make way for farmland were among the worsening threats to nature, according to more than 550 experts in a set of reports approved by 129 governments after talks in Colombia.
“Biodiversity, the essential variety of life-forms on earth, continues to decline in every region of the world,” the authors wrote. “This alarming trend endangers the quality of life of people everywhere.”
Four regional reports covered the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Europe and Central Asia - all areas of the planet except the poles and the high seas.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Ah ,UN you sooo silly
"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
--Christiane Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
UN Agenda 21 will never die unless we kill the UN.
I vote: Yay! Defund-deport-disolve.
This is written as if humans were not inherent to nature but were an invasive species. Whatever we do as human beings is part and parcel of the natural order. Nature is not politically correct. More meaningless drivel from the eco-left.
So, we stop saving/funding/feeding/etc third world countries and block inhabitants’ emigration.
To certain groups, humans are THE invasive species and are responsible for everything bad on muvver erf. Except for them of course, since “they” are awesome.
Total Horse Hockey.
Stopped reading right there. What else would you expect a group of 'experts' hired ('bought and paid for) by the UN to conclude?
(with the obvious intention being to grow more food) jeopardizes the food supply?
Paging Dr. Goebbels
Yes, another crock of horse excrement from the global left. It never ends.
They should start this process by example. Everyone who works for the U.N. should volunteer to be neutered immediately
If they don’t volunteer we need to enforce the mandate by any means necessary. This includes both male and females employees, all subcontractors and their families.
Over 15 years ago, Earth First supported removing 62 out of 63 people living on the Planet....Guess who they thought should be doing the decisions???
That organization still exists.
Everything you need to know about food shortages can be found by looking at Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and now South Africa.
Third world losers looking for a ‘Gore-type’ handout... Save the world - give money to hellholes.
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