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Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists 60 Minutes (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Jan 2023
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bucolic_frolic
(43,188 posts)1. Club for Growth pissed on every conservation effort
Magoo48
(4,716 posts)3. If next generations are to experience any kind of livable environment,
massive grassroots movements across the globe along with extreme paradigm shifts in what humans value must take place in the next decade. Not likely.
First, we look to the top for answers and action. Not gonna happen. Multiple layers of greed, self interest, and bullshit in corporate politics are too entrenched.
And second, first world citizens will not be inconvenienced while much of the third world is simply trying not to starve.
Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)2. No more grizzly bears in California,
I didn't know that.
Thanks for the thread Quixote
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)4. maybe if they ground all those jet airplanes we have flying every day!That is a ton of pollution.
Not to mention the 'sport' of watching cars go around and around for hours on end. There is a lot of things we could give up if we were smart.
GreenWave
(6,759 posts)5. T minus a maximum of 1.5 million years.
By then it is way too late. That is for the last dying breaths of Mother Earth.