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In reply to the discussion: Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World's Wildlife in 50 Years [View all]PufPuf23
(8,854 posts)39. Humanity as known to people now alive is toast.
Only questions in a population crash is how fast and brutal and how much is self inflicted and how much is nature doing its thing.
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We can solve these problems, but ignorance and anti-intellectualism gets in the way.
hunter
Sep 2020
#9
My adult son was reading scientific journals on climate change and I got a call last night.
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#11
It's a difficult conversation. I just tell mine that there is hope and it's never to late for humans
iluvtennis
Sep 2020
#13
I do the same. Mine has no want to bring a kid into the world. A generation of aware young people
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#15
My two have the same sentinment as yours...they don't want children. But I tell them,
iluvtennis
Sep 2020
#29
I can't say that any more when my son puts up the possibility of him not living out his full life,
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#31
Lol... And this, is what we do with the kids. Yup. Losing my ACA in middle of covid I ask my Trump
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#33
Any of the thinking young people certainly agree. When they cannot even see themselves getting
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#25
We had that conversation too, and yes, I have noticed, we do not have to clean our windshields of
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#16
So, because of these conversations regardless of my fears, I stirred up the courage just now to
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#18
Lol. So, mosquitos. I was reading last night to catch up some to son conversation and they are
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#21
And, of course, they will be diseases previosly unknown, difficult to diagnose, and impossible
rainin
Sep 2020
#27
Because I did not want to go into all the explanation of what they say will happen with climate
LizBeth
Sep 2020
#46
I have noticed a precipitous decline in moths and other nocturnal flying insects
misanthrope
Sep 2020
#42
Agriculture Department's 'Wildlife Services' Killed Nearly 1.5 Million Native Animals in 2018
StarryNite
Sep 2020
#30