29 December 2018
Hullo, town!
I hope you're okay :)
I've spent the past couple of days and nights doing my very best to sleep through the flu. Feeling a lot better today. Still a bit hot and fuzzy, but it's nice to be able to sort-of-think again.
I have had other adventures. Twelve days ago I had my left little finger broken by a silly policeman during a protest. I don't collect baseball cards, soap, or erasers, but I do seem to attract silly policemen―so I've started an undeserved injury
collection entitled On the dangers of… doing nothing
.
As for why I'm protesting…
Here are some numbers I looked up a few days ago:
Around 80% of plant species (incl. ~75% of our main food crops) are pollinated by insects and other animals.
There's been a ~75% decline in insect numbers over the past 30 years, and a 60% decline in average vertebrate population sizes over the past 50 years.
If you look at the total biomass of mammals, 96% is humans plus livestock; mammals in the wild now represent only 4%.
It's mostly down to habitat loss―and climate change is going to exacerbate that.
Shouldn't this be top-front news in mainstream media?
(By the way, this is a depressing topic. The best way I've found to deal with that is to get involved with local environmental groups―doing things with other people really helps.)
References:
- WWF Living Planet Report 2018
- NY Times: The Insect Apocalypse is Here
- EcoWatch: Humans and Big Ag Livestock Now Account for 96 Percent of Mammal Biomass
- BioScience: World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
-
Greta Thunberg, 15:
You Are Stealing Our Future
- Extinction Rebellion
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