On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report. One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Nature everywhere is declining at a speed never previously seen and our need for ever more food and energy are the main drivers. These trends can be halted, the study says, but it will take "transformative change" in every aspect of how humans interact with nature. From the bees that pollinate our crops, to the forests that hold back flood waters, the report reveals how humans are ravaging the very ecosystems that support their societies. Three years in the making, this global assessment of nature draws on 15,000 reference materials, and has been compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It runs to 1,800 pages. The brief, 40-page "summary for policymakers", published today at a meeting in Paris, is perhaps the most powerful indictment of how humans have treated their only home. It says that while the Earth has always suffered from the actions of humans through history, over the past 50 years, these scratches have become deep scars. https://news.google.com/stories/CAA...HYVFNd1BDSjFLQUFQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Libs don't want more people on the earth. Remember, Trump says we execute babies after they are born. barfo
Libs aren't in charge. If more people are coming here, then I guess Trump's policies are failing. barfo
Watched an interesting program on PBS last evening, after the damn ball game. Talking about how grand it is that they have run the cattle grazing in the forest meadows out of the wood. Now Camas is growing in the meadows! I guess Camas was a native people staple food supply, very nutritious, the folk at OSU say. It all seems good to me! Cattle make a mess out of forest meadows and even worse on the streams. But just how much of a food supply did we gain here? Camas over Cattle? Yeah Perhaps. But is it sustainable? They dig them out by the root, then it takes 2 days to bake them so a man can eat them with out great gastric distress. (See Lewis and Clark tales) I suspect it would all be good, Oregon would be a grand place to live, on fish , Camas, Salmon Berries, a little venison. Dang! I did just that thing, in my younger days. Well with a little help from Stoney Wells, and his supply of Bear Jerky. Perhaps if we counted our neighbors in the single digit thousands, instead of Millions, we could all do it. Life would be good.
Thinking with your butt now barf. Libs control the house and changes to the current law. So they come.
Doesn't make any sense, sorry. The laws haven't changed for years. What's changed is the administration policies. So they come. Apparently Trump's policies are counterproductive. barfo
