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The loss of biodiversity is a silent killer. It’s different from climate change, where people feel the impact in everyday life. With biodiversity, it is not so clear but by the time you feel what is happening, it may be too late.
I hope we aren’t the first species to document our own extinction.
To corrupt or destroy the natural environment
is an act of violence not only against the earth but
also against those who are dependent on it, including ourselves.
We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff.
If there was a 60% decline in the human population, that would be equivalent to emptying North America, South America, Africa, Europe, China and Oceania. That is the scale of what we have done.
This is far more than just being about losing the wonders of nature,
desperately sad though that is. This is actually now jeopardising the future of people.
Nature is not a ‘nice to have’ – it is our life-support system.
The Living Planet report clearly demonstrates that human activities
are destroying nature at an unacceptable rate, threatening the wellbeing of current and future generations.
There is this direct link between the food system and the depletion of wildlife.
Eating less meat is an essential part of reversing losses.
We are the first generation to know we are destroying our planet
and the last one that can do anything about it.
It’s worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed
as a safe limit. Until and unless we can bring biodiversity back up, we’re playing ecological roulette.
If we can’t protect nature, we can’t protect ourselves.
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