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@happy-chappy said"Premature" where?
The current perception that climate change is the principal threat to biodiversity is at best premature. Although highly relevant, it detracts focus and effort from the primary threats: habitat destruction and overexploitation.
Are you talking about your own house and your backyard or are you talking about other places around the world?
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@happy-chappy saidSurely the threats of climate change and habitat exploitation are both worthy of critical examination and innovation?
The current perception that climate change is the principal threat to biodiversity is at best premature. Although highly relevant, it detracts focus and effort from the primary threats: habitat destruction and overexploitation.
Besides the former is inextricably linked to the latter, is it not?
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@happy-chappy saidYou're not completely wrong, habitat destruction aka deforestation is a massive factor in climate change. It's great to decrease the amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere but when carbon is released due to cutting down forestry its contradictory.
The current perception that climate change is the principal threat to biodiversity is at best premature. Although highly relevant, it detracts focus and effort from the primary threats: habitat destruction and overexploitation.
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@a-unique-nickname saidYour banter sounds like Very Rusty's.
@Dive and FMF, do you two ever sleep?
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@happy-chappy saidAgain, are you talking about the town where you live, wherever that may be?
Holes in the food chain must be addressed if our worlds population is is to feed itself.
Do you really, seriously believe that climate change is not affecting food security in more vulnerable parts of the world?
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@happy-chappy saidhabitat destruction has grown exponentially
Climate change maybe become more obvious but has been evident for millennia. Deserts were forests and oceans land ,however habitat destruction has grown exponentially.
Holes in the food chain must be addressed if our worlds population is is to feed itself.
Do you contend that this is somehow not related to climate change?
@happy-chappy saidSo the human mind is a bit a problem. Concentrating on one issue is what most people can do.
The current perception that climate change is the principal threat to biodiversity is at best premature. Although highly relevant, it detracts focus and effort from the primary threats: habitat destruction and overexploitation.
How would you balance ALL threats to life on earth:
* climate change (reason for some effects, but also consequence of others)
* loss of biodiversiyt (consequence of many things)
* deforrestation ( consequence of some things, reason for other effects)
* desertification (consequnece of some things, reason for other effects)
* pollution via microplastics
* polluition via pharmaceuticals
* world hunger
* human overpopulation
* unequal distribution of wealth
* overconsumption
* tendency to create one-way products with limited lifetime
...
And what actions would you suggest?
Unfortunately I'm not too literate. Having said that,my concerns stem from the recent endangered species list and an apparent inability to combat it. At the rate we are going in terms of habitat destruction in conjunction with a changing climate,we will reach a point of ecological breakdown where the only resolution will be drastic reduction of population.
That's the best I've got.
Illiterate may be an overstretch ,though I have anxiety when putting pen to paper.
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@happy-chappy saidThe only resolution will be drastic reduction of population.That's the best I've got.
Unfortunately I'm not too literate. Having said that,my concerns stem from the recent endangered species list and an apparent inability to combat it. At the rate we are going in terms of habitat destruction in conjunction with a changing climate,we will reach a point of ecological breakdown where the only resolution will be drastic reduction of population.
That's the best I've got.
Illiterate may be an overstretch ,though I have anxiety when putting pen to paper.
How would you bring this about?