Experts have warned that a major extinction event
could occuris occurringExperts have warned that a major extinction event could occur if the world doesn’t move to tackle climate change.
How long am I going to keep hearing this
You're going to keep hearing it till after the bulk of the major extinction event has already happened
100 years later, the only non human animals still remaining are cattle and le epic doggos, news reports will still say that experts are warning an extinction event may happen.
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Experts have warned that a major extinction event could occur if the world doesn’t move to tackle climate change.
We're already in the 6th great extinction event, the Holocene extinction.
The Ivory-billed woodpecker may still exist in Cuba, at least. :fidel-salute:
Rivers, steams, ponds, and lakes in the USA have been destroyed by pollution and other forms of intervention - dams, using too much water, removing oxbow lakes from alongside rivers, changing a river's course instead of letting it meander (literally causing the bottom of Louisiana to fall into the sea), etc.
The Waters of the United States rule from Obama to include any stream/river that fed into a navigable waterway as part of the Clean Waters Act was a good thing. There was also a huge effort by the right wing to undermine it, which the Trump admin and a federal judge did a few years ago. Fuck.
Didn't The TROOOMP admin basically remove every environmental protection? I feel like people were so caught up in the theatrics that there hasn't been much discussion of all the policy that was made or rescinded
I'd like to know which protections removed by the Trump admin were added back by Biden (if any, they don't give a shit about climate change and barely care about water quality), I'll look it up later.
Federal courts helped remove a lot of these restrictions too, so it's not like Biden could add them back without doing a Bidenist purge of judges.
There's been sightings every few years, but no concrete evidence at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if there are relict populations deep in the swamps of the southeast US.
Such a shame, they were a really awesome bird. I really hope at some point in the future we can bring recently extinct species back with cloning and selective breeding.
Hmm I can think of a few other things that are extinct:
Soviet style fawning over the president by his subordinates
Separation of families at the border
Vladimir Putin’s influence in the White House
Cheetos in the White House (formerly the Orange house)
Covering up the murder of Jamal kashoggi
Presidential Bullying
Fascism
Authoritarianism
And when the worst of the worst effects of climate change come to fruition, I will be sitting in an office pretending like everything is OK :jokah:
Humans being adaptable to change is the biggest fucking lie I’ve ever heard in my life. Maybe physically, but mentally we will always be stuck doing the same repetitive tasks until the system breaks down and people start dying.
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/23-species-from-19-states-lost-to-extinction-2021-09-29/
here is a list of them. some of them havent been seen since the 1960s or earlier, so they were just assumed to be extinct until now, when its official.
lots of mussels on the list, i never even thought mussels were potentially in danger.
I think they're also probably being out-competed by the invasive zebra mussel, too.
