Posted on 10/22/2024 11:28:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On the agenda is life on earth, in all its forms and diversity. The big question is how far nations will go to stop the disastrous declines underway.
Representatives from more than 175 countries are gathering to negotiate answers, starting on Monday in Cali, Colombia, at what is expected to be the largest United Nations biodiversity conference in history.
How the talks unfold over the next two weeks will help determine, for better or worse, the planet’s future. Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history, an intergovernmental panel of scientists found in 2019. It estimated that a million species were in danger of extinction. Even many common species are in decline. Bird populations in the United States and Canada, for example, are down almost 30 percent since 1970, with widespread losses among some of the most frequently seen species.
The biggest driver of declines in biodiversity on land is habitat loss, mainly when land is taken for agriculture, the panel found. In the ocean, it’s overfishing. Climate change plays an ever-growing role, and the two crises are intertwined.
Such drastic losses of biodiversity threaten human well-being, scientists warn. Forests filled with birdsong also stash away planet-warming carbon, filter water and create rain. Healthy rivers and oceans run with fish that people need for food. Insects nourish soil and pollinate plants, birds and mammals disperse seeds, plants turn sunshine into food for the rest of us.
“When we destroy biodiversity, we are destroying the very links that help the system to reproduce life,” said Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, who will be presiding over the conference. “What is at stake is actually another wave of extinction, which could be the sixth general extinction on Earth.” The...
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EnviroNazi’s/EnviroCommies.
Anything to fool enough people into Worldwide Totalitarian Government.
FUGEDDABOUDDDITTT!!!
No, it’s a major push to find out ways to tokenize and monetize America’s public lands so the plundering plutocrats can further enrich themselves.
They use third world indigenous people as human shields.
even the name of the author is AI generated
Catrin Einhorn Ray Finkle THINK!
Protect nature
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By flying a large number of people around the world to attend a conference instead of holding virtual meetings...
I usually just ignore them. Most of them are just crap propaganda anyway. I’d rather not see them myself. Besides, they are behind a paywall so...
So clue me in. Is it an ice age or global warming that is going to kill us all? Maybe it will be a nuclear war that the left seems to be anxious to start. Anyway, just take all our money, put all us peons under government control and let all the world’s billionaires have the freedoms they have earned and deserve and “save the planet”.
Doesn’t look very safe at all!
“Bird populations in the United States and Canada, for example, are down almost 30 percent since 1970...”
Probably because we are the only countries that keep track of such things. So of course we will need to send money to South America for reparations.
Looks very interesting.
For anyone in the northeast, I found this guy.
The Woodland Steward.
http://www.thewoodlandsteward.com/
From his homepage:
“About Us:
The Woodland Steward is all about sharing our love of nature and allowing
others to experience Oak Haven, the 60 acre woodland in southwestern Ohio
that we call home. When we purchased this property over twenty years ago it
was a wonderful natural area, but was quickly becoming overrun with
non-native invasive species such as Garlic Mustard and Honeysuckle (among
others). We have worked long and hard to remove those non-native invaders,
and along the way have gotten up close and personal with the plant and
animal community that lives here. We are Jim & Julie Varick. We both have
Bachelor of Science degrees in Botany from Miami University (‘82), which
doesn’t necessarily make us experts on what we see in our woods, but it does
give us the tools to learn more as we experience more. Please subscribe to
our channel and join us on this adventure to experience the woods throughout
the seasons and learn what we have done right, and what we have done wrong
as Woodland Stewards.
Feel free to contact us at Jim@TheWoodlandSteward.com, or Julie@TheWoodlandSteward.com.”
He also has some great you tube videos on how to identify and deal with invasives.
I bought some native saplings recently and mentioned to the lady there that I was trying to get rid of the invasives and restore native habitat. She said a lot of people are doing the same.
Good as that is, I see so much more that is neglected.
One I don’t get at all that people let go is wild parsnip. I guess it’s going to take some really bad disfiguring burns before some people learn to let some things go.
...to NOT let things go.....
The link is to our project of some 35 years. When I started, the property had a 200-year history of exotic introductions, as it adjoins the route of a Spanish El Camino Real between Missions Santa Clara and Santa Cruz built in the fall of 1791.
We’ve only been at it for four but made decent progress.
We’ve gotten rid of a LOT of autumn olive and invasive honeysuckle. We were careful to not touch any milkweed and this year had a LOT more grow. There’s a big push for it because of the monarch butterflies.
I actually started seeing some native woodland plants I hadn’t noticed before, but that may be more that I didn’t know what to look for or when. But we had a fair amount of red trillium show up.
I also picked up some native wildflower seeds at the county plant sale and started some of those. A few have made it and I planted them near some of the saplings I planted.
I’m hoping to see much more in the way of native wildflowers in the next couple years.
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