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. …
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Bull-shitzky
Did these folks pass elementary science?
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.
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.
O noes!
Mosquitoes and horse flies can go first.
The only way to stop this impending mass extinction is to pass the BBB legislation.
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.
The WWF is gonna body slam global warming!
Wait until the Undertaker takes on mass extinction!
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.
The World Wrestling Federation has an opinion of
extinction level events...who knew?
That’s what I’ve always
Pointed out,
Interesting.
I vote for fungus gnats. We had a plague of those last fall . . .
Did World Wrestling Federation go extinct?
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
How do we drive American lib/Marxists to extinction?
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