Elevated extinction risk in over one-fifth of native North American pollinators - A total of 1,579 species from the best-studied vertebrate and insect pollinator groups face an elevated risk of extinction. The major threats are climate change, agriculture and ecological modifications.
Posted by -Mystica-@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 6 comments
-Mystica-@reddit (OP)
We are living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction, yet hardly anyone is talking about it. One million species are currently at risk of extinction, many within decades, according to the IPBES. Since 1970, wildlife populations have declined by an average of 69%, and three-quarters of terrestrial environments have been severely altered by human activity. This crisis is unfolding in real time, right before our eyes — but our attention is drifting.
As far-right movements gain ground across the globe, environmental issues are pushed to the margins. The public discourse is dominated by fear, identity, and division — not by biodiversity loss, climate breakdown, or ecological collapse. We are turning away from the living world, just as it vanishes around us.
seriouslysampson@reddit
To me most of these issues are intertwined. The ecological issues aren’t separate from the social and economic issues.
-Mystica-@reddit (OP)
And you are absolutely right, it is intertwined.
Ghostwoods@reddit
We talk about it a lot here.
DiscountExtra2376@reddit
I do not get how people do not get that this is earth not regenerating when it's all said and done. Earth isn't regenerating resources for future consumption, so animals all around us are dying as a result. We're in the same line as the rest of them, we just don't know when we are next.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/-Mystica-:
We are living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction, yet hardly anyone is talking about it. One million species are currently at risk of extinction, many within decades, according to the IPBES. Since 1970, wildlife populations have declined by an average of 69%, and three-quarters of terrestrial environments have been severely altered by human activity. This crisis is unfolding in real time, right before our eyes — but our attention is drifting.
As far-right movements gain ground across the globe, environmental issues are pushed to the margins. The public discourse is dominated by fear, identity, and division — not by biodiversity loss, climate breakdown, or ecological collapse. We are turning away from the living world, just as it vanishes around us.
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