Posted on 09/15/2020 9:34:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In 2010, more than 150 countries agreed to goals to protect nature, but the new United Nations scorecard found that the world has largely failed to meet 20 different targets to safeguard species and ecosystems.
Six of those 20 goals were “partially achieved,” and the rest were not. […]
Inger Andersen, who leads the U.N. environment program, called it a global failure.
“From COVID-19 to massive wildfires, floods, melting glaciers and unprecedented heat, our failure to meet the Aichi (biodiversity) targets — protect our our home — has very real consequences,” Andersen said. “We can no longer afford to cast nature to the side.” …
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Stop China!
Hollywood is failing on the biodiversity front as well. When’s the last time an insect has been nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars, or a rodent cast in the leading role of a Bond movie?
No, metaphorical rodents won’t do. That would be cultural appropriation.
FU UN.
Who’s goals are they and why do we care?
Real Americans are busy working to worry about the Green-Billed, Purple-Breast Sparrow that is only on an 1 acre island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!!! 😋
GOOD.
Commies gotta “five year plan” for Nature as well as humans, and then try punish non-commies when they fail ...
I’m still waiting on the solid evidence of any extinctions that have actually been verified. So far all I have seen are unverified flawed statistical simulations.
This is the New Science where feelings and statistical simulations are more important than observation and rigorous scientific testing.
Someone should stop the Chinese from paying huge money for rare animals to be used as food.
They have eaten many animals out of existence, and then just switch to a different animal until that is gone, without one thought.
They are a virus. (My Chinese wife agrees wholeheartedly.)
LOL, I suppose slapping the hands of the Red Chinese is out of the question, as they voraciously eat through anything with four legs, wings, or fins, not to mention the animals destroyed for their “medicinal purposes”.
good news imo
99.99999% of all species that have ever lived have gone extinct.
It’s the way nature works. Interfering with that process is shortsighted and counterproductive.
The UN can bite me.
Lots of things to worry about in this old world, but failing to meet goals somebody else set for me without asking isn’t real high on my list. It is, to be sure, regrettable that certain species may disappear, particularly the delicious ones.
We can't protect our police or normal citizens in our streets, how are we going to control nature?
That goes without saying and doesn't answer my question. The argument naturalists and environmentalists use is that man-made extinctions are increasing at an accelerated rate, yet there is no scientific evidence of these extinctions other than what a computer model says. I read articles periodically that show we are rediscovering species we previously though extinct. Other than the Dodo Bird, I don't know of any other animal or plant that man has eradicated either purposefully or vicariously.
The other species that are touted as a “man-made extinction” would be the passenger pigeon in North America and the thylacine in Tasmania.
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