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Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF
Deutsche Welle ^ | 12.29.2021 | rs/msh (epd, AFP)

Posted on 12/30/2021 5:52:36 PM PST by Olog-hai

Ever-growing environmental threats are pushing many animals and plants to the brink of extinction — the scale of which hasn’t been seen since dinosaurs died out, the German branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Wednesday.

The stark warnings came as WWF Germany released its “Winners and Losers of 2021,” an annual list of animals whose existence is now acutely under threat — as well as conservation victories.

There are currently 142,500 animal and plant species on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — 40,000 of which are “threatened with extinction.”

It is the largest number of species to be included on the Red List since it was established in 1964, according to WWF Germany.

“Around one million species could go extinct within the next decade — which would be the largest mass extinction event since the end of the dinosaur age,” the organization said in a statement.

WWF Germany director Eberhard Brandes said decisive environmental protection policies were urgently needed, particularly in the fight against climate change. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; eussr; fakenews; fourthreich; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; massextinction; wwf
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1 posted on 12/30/2021 5:52:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Bull-shitzky


2 posted on 12/30/2021 5:53:14 PM PST by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: Olog-hai

Did these folks pass elementary science?


3 posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:06 PM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: Olog-hai

If natural selection explained how we got here, we’d have tons of new species automatically springing up into existence, not the other way around.


4 posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:06 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai

If natural selection explained how we got here, we’d have tons of new species automatically springing up into existence, not the other way around.


5 posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:07 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai

O noes!


6 posted on 12/30/2021 5:54:41 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Olog-hai

Mosquitoes and horse flies can go first.


7 posted on 12/30/2021 5:55:48 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 55 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: G Larry
If you have the right political connections, ta-da—instant scientist.
8 posted on 12/30/2021 5:55:53 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The only way to stop this impending mass extinction is to pass the BBB legislation.


9 posted on 12/30/2021 5:57:41 PM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: Olog-hai

The Revelation to John says what’s coming, and those who persist in making nature their idol are not going to see the new earth.


10 posted on 12/30/2021 5:59:34 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Olog-hai

The WWF is gonna body slam global warming!

Wait until the Undertaker takes on mass extinction!


11 posted on 12/30/2021 6:02:00 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: TheConservator

Really. In the geologic past, real mass extinctions such as the Permian-Eemian transition took over millenia to happen. Hardly anything that could happen in the next century, not to mention the next decade. This is a crude attempt to scare ignorant people, which unfortunately has some effect.
It is a good illustration of just how dishonest and unethical these fraudulent people are.


12 posted on 12/30/2021 6:02:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Olog-hai

The World Wrestling Federation has an opinion of
extinction level events...who knew?


13 posted on 12/30/2021 6:04:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s what I’ve always
Pointed out,
Interesting.


14 posted on 12/30/2021 6:08:09 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: SamAdams76

I vote for fungus gnats. We had a plague of those last fall . . .


15 posted on 12/30/2021 6:12:56 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Did World Wrestling Federation go extinct?


16 posted on 12/30/2021 6:15:55 PM PST by DannyTN
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17 posted on 12/30/2021 6:17:01 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Olog-hai

I personally know a man who has spent a lifetime doing work in the rainforest of Congo to actually save endangered species, primarily the Okapi, but also all the critters, bugs and plant life

Something this writer has likely never done


18 posted on 12/30/2021 6:17:21 PM PST by digger48
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To: Olog-hai
Hogwash Alert!
19 posted on 12/30/2021 6:19:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Olog-hai

How do we drive American lib/Marxists to extinction?


20 posted on 12/30/2021 6:20:00 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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