Around the world wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970. In just 46 years we have wiped out well over half of the world’s creatures!
That is appalling.
It is estimated that by 2020 we will have wiped out two thirds of the living creatures on this planet and pushed a huge number to the edge of extinction.
Wildlife is presently being slaughtered at an annual rate of 2%. That is staggering. Just imagine how many millions of creatures that is each and every day!!
Animals, big and small, are being pushed to the edge of extinction through overfishing, habitat destruction and hunting.
Elephants – 111,000 killed by poaching in the last ten years!
Leatherback turtles – 95% decline in 13 years!
Only 70 Amur Leopards left.
Only 3,900 tigers left in the wild.
Surely this is a wake-up call. If we do not take rapid measures to curb our huge population increase and put a stop to hunting, poaching, irresponsible fishing, fresh water reduction due to irrigation, destruction of wilderness for crops, deforestation and other habitat damaging activities we will destroy our planet.
Each animal is a poem lost to us. Each death diminishes us. Each bout of destruction reduces the whole of mankind.
Please help put an end to this decimation. We are the most destructive force on this planet – on a par with the comet that put pay to the dinosaurs.
Read what I have to say on the state of the planet in my book Anthropocene Apocalypse –
I wonder who REALLY cares? Scary…
I think there are millions of us who care but the ones with the power and the money to do something about it are only interested in more power and more money. They don’t want to solve problems.
Maybe I’m getting too cynical after more than 2000 years of the same thing…
I think it has been a lot longer than 2000 years. There is something cruel and frightening in the human psyche. We are Jekyll and Hyde characters. All our fiction deals with it – the dark side – the good side. It’s the whole thing played out in films – the John Wayne against the baddies, the Star Wars films, Harry Potter. We are intelligent but we love to kill and destroy are immensely greedy and have a lust for power. We don’t care. That self-destructive urge is ever-present.
Reblogged this on Opher's World and commented:
We are destroying the planet by increments. Unless we change it is doomed. There has to be more to life than money!