Important science news Republicans toss in the "I don't give a fuck" file

[Micawber]

"Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history," a U.N. panel says, reporting that around 1 million species are currently at risk. Here, an endangered hawksbill turtle swims in a Singapore aquarium in 2017.
Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.
Some of the report's findings might not seem new to those who have followed stories of how humans have affected the environment, from shifts in seasons to the prevalence of plastics and other contaminants in water. But its authors say the assessment is the most accurate and comprehensive review yet of the damage people are inflicting on the planet. And they warn that nature is declining at "unprecedented" rates and that the changes will put people at risk.
"Protecting biodiversity amounts to protecting humanity," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said at a news conference about the findings Monday morning.
The report depicts "an ominous picture," says Sir Robert Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (commonly called the IPBES), which compiled the assessment.
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"The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," Watson says. He emphasizes that business and financial concerns are also threatened. "We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide," he says.
The report lists a number of key global threats, from humans' use of land and sea resources to challenges posed by climate change, pollution and invasive species.
"Insect pollinators are unfortunately an excellent example of the problems caused by human activities," Scott McArt, an entomology professor at Cornell University, says in a statement about the report.
"There's actually a newly coined phrase for insect declines — the 'windshield effect' — owing to the fact that if you drove your car at dusk 30 years ago, you would need to clean the windshield frequently, but that's no longer the case today," McArt says.

Heat: Coping With A Warming World
Spring Is Springing Sooner, Throwing Nature's Rhythms Out Of Whack
In its tally of humanity's toll on the Earth, the assessment says "approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year," adding that the figure has nearly doubled since 1980.
Here's a short selection of some of the report's notable findings:
75% of land environment and some 66% of the marine environment "have been significantly altered by human actions."
"More than a third of the world's land surface and nearly 75% of freshwater resources" are used for crops or livestock.
"Up to $577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss."
Between 100 million and 300 million people now face "increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection."
Since 1992, the world's urban areas have more than doubled.
"Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980," and from "300-400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge" and other industrial waste are dumped into the world's water systems.
"Biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity's most important life-supporting 'safety net.' But our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point," says Sandra Díaz of Argentina, a co-chair of the global assessment.
Díaz and other experts portrayed humans as both the cause of the threat and a target of its risks. As humanity demands ever more food, energy, housing and other resources, they say, it's also undermining its own food security and long-term prospects.

"The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," says Josef Settele, a co-chair from Germany. "This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world."
The report found patterns of "telecoupling," which another co-chair, Eduardo S. Brondízio of Brazil and the U.S., describes as the phenomenon of resources being extracted and made into goods in one part of the world "to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions."
That pattern, Brondízio says, makes it more complicated to avoid damage to nature through the usual avenues of governance and accountability.
While the report's eye-popping statistics about what the world stands to lose because of human activity are drawing headlines, conservation advocates say they hope the assessment helps people grasp the bigger picture.
"The hope is that folks will be able to extrapolate beyond the individual stories they've been seeing about orcas or monarchs or bees or bats or caribou or whatever," says Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. He adds that the new report could help people "see that this is a systemic threat that could potentially cause the sixth extinction even, if we don't act quickly."
Hundreds of experts worked together to create the global assessment, with a total of 455 authors representing 50 countries taking part, according to the IPBES.
The agency calls the report one of the most comprehensive assessments of the planet's health ever undertaken, saying it is the first global biodiversity assessment since 2005.
Its findings are based on reviews of some 15,000 scientific and government sources, the IPBES says, adding that in addition to those formal sources, the report also includes insights from indigenous and local communities.
To create the assessment, the IPBES was asked to answer several wide-ranging questions, from reporting on the current status and patterns of change in the natural world to "plausible futures" for nature and the quality of life through 2050. Other questions sought to find interventions and challenges for coping with those changes — and possibly improving dire outcomes.
The goal, the report's authors say, was not only to take stock of a worsening predicament but to give policymakers "the tools they need to make better choices for people and nature."
The assessment highlights dire predictions for habitats and native species in South America and parts of Asia. But the NWF's O'Mara warns that the U.S. also has much to lose — especially if biodiversity is viewed as someone else's problem.
"This is a problem here at home," O'Mara says. "About one-third of all species right now in the U.S. are at heightened risk of potential extinction in the next couple of decades."
Echoing what environmental experts said in Europe as the IPBES released its report, O'Mara says it is not too late to act.

NPR

Gee, what are the chances any of this critical information finds its way into a Republican agenda?


Republicans, they are all about evil.

[Oneuli]

"Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history," a U.N. panel says, reporting that around 1 million species are currently at risk. Here, an endangered hawksbill turtle swims in a Singapore aquarium in 2017.
Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.
Some of the report's findings might not seem new to those who have followed stories of how humans have affected the environment, from shifts in seasons to the prevalence of plastics and other contaminants in water. But its authors say the assessment is the most accurate and comprehensive review yet of the damage people are inflicting on the planet. And they warn that nature is declining at "unprecedented" rates and that the changes will put people at risk.
"Protecting biodiversity amounts to protecting humanity," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said at a news conference about the findings Monday morning.
The report depicts "an ominous picture," says Sir Robert Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (commonly called the IPBES), which compiled the assessment.
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"The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," Watson says. He emphasizes that business and financial concerns are also threatened. "We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide," he says.
The report lists a number of key global threats, from humans' use of land and sea resources to challenges posed by climate change, pollution and invasive species.
"Insect pollinators are unfortunately an excellent example of the problems caused by human activities," Scott McArt, an entomology professor at Cornell University, says in a statement about the report.
"There's actually a newly coined phrase for insect declines — the 'windshield effect' — owing to the fact that if you drove your car at dusk 30 years ago, you would need to clean the windshield frequently, but that's no longer the case today," McArt says.

Heat: Coping With A Warming World
Spring Is Springing Sooner, Throwing Nature's Rhythms Out Of Whack
In its tally of humanity's toll on the Earth, the assessment says "approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year," adding that the figure has nearly doubled since 1980.
Here's a short selection of some of the report's notable findings:
75% of land environment and some 66% of the marine environment "have been significantly altered by human actions."
"More than a third of the world's land surface and nearly 75% of freshwater resources" are used for crops or livestock.
"Up to $577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss."
Between 100 million and 300 million people now face "increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection."
Since 1992, the world's urban areas have more than doubled.
"Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980," and from "300-400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge" and other industrial waste are dumped into the world's water systems.
"Biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity's most important life-supporting 'safety net.' But our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point," says Sandra Díaz of Argentina, a co-chair of the global assessment.
Díaz and other experts portrayed humans as both the cause of the threat and a target of its risks. As humanity demands ever more food, energy, housing and other resources, they say, it's also undermining its own food security and long-term prospects.

"The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," says Josef Settele, a co-chair from Germany. "This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world."
The report found patterns of "telecoupling," which another co-chair, Eduardo S. Brondízio of Brazil and the U.S., describes as the phenomenon of resources being extracted and made into goods in one part of the world "to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions."
That pattern, Brondízio says, makes it more complicated to avoid damage to nature through the usual avenues of governance and accountability.
While the report's eye-popping statistics about what the world stands to lose because of human activity are drawing headlines, conservation advocates say they hope the assessment helps people grasp the bigger picture.
"The hope is that folks will be able to extrapolate beyond the individual stories they've been seeing about orcas or monarchs or bees or bats or caribou or whatever," says Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. He adds that the new report could help people "see that this is a systemic threat that could potentially cause the sixth extinction even, if we don't act quickly."
Hundreds of experts worked together to create the global assessment, with a total of 455 authors representing 50 countries taking part, according to the IPBES.
The agency calls the report one of the most comprehensive assessments of the planet's health ever undertaken, saying it is the first global biodiversity assessment since 2005.
Its findings are based on reviews of some 15,000 scientific and government sources, the IPBES says, adding that in addition to those formal sources, the report also includes insights from indigenous and local communities.
To create the assessment, the IPBES was asked to answer several wide-ranging questions, from reporting on the current status and patterns of change in the natural world to "plausible futures" for nature and the quality of life through 2050. Other questions sought to find interventions and challenges for coping with those changes — and possibly improving dire outcomes.
The goal, the report's authors say, was not only to take stock of a worsening predicament but to give policymakers "the tools they need to make better choices for people and nature."
The assessment highlights dire predictions for habitats and native species in South America and parts of Asia. But the NWF's O'Mara warns that the U.S. also has much to lose — especially if biodiversity is viewed as someone else's problem.
"This is a problem here at home," O'Mara says. "About one-third of all species right now in the U.S. are at heightened risk of potential extinction in the next couple of decades."
Echoing what environmental experts said in Europe as the IPBES released its report, O'Mara says it is not too late to act.

NPR

Gee, what are the chances any of this critical information finds its way into a Republican agenda?


Republicans, they are all about evil.

When people look back at the history of many decades or centuries ago, they tend to imagine that if they'd lived through such times, they'd be among the good people of the times. For example, if they'd lived in the South in the 1930s, they'd have been Atticus Finch, standing up for justice, not a member of the lynch mob. If they'd lived in Germany in the 1940s, they'd have been Oscar Schindler or a member of the White Rose resistance, not a brown shirt with jackboots and a mindless devotion to the Fuehrer. They'd never have been one of the Conquistadors torturing natives to try to find hidden caches or gold, nor a member of the crowds that showed up to jeer people being burned at the stake for having said religiously unorthodox things, nor a thug beating up women for daring to demonstrate for the right to vote.

But the truth is, every era has its villains -- and the large majority of people are willing to go along with villainy rather than stand up to it. And you can get a pretty good feel for who you would have been in prior times by who you are now. Are you standing up for the weak or helping to keep them in line on behalf of those exploiting them? Are you pushing for social progress, or digging in with the reactionary forces? Are you fighting to promote scientific advances, or treating new knowledge as a threat that should be suppressed? Are you working to preserve our natural heritage, or helping to destroy it to the impoverishment of future generations? Who you are now is who you would have been back then. This era has its villains, too, but like every era, they lack awareness of how their descendants will wind up seeing them.

[PoliTalker]

Good morning Oneuli,

When people look back at the history of many decades or centuries ago, they tend to imagine that if they'd lived through such times, they'd be among the good people of the times. For example, if they'd lived in the South in the 1930s, they'd have been Atticus Finch, standing up for justice, not a member of the lynch mob. If they'd lived in Germany in the 1940s, they'd have been Oscar Schindler or a member of the White Rose resistance, not a brown shirt with jackboots and a mindless devotion to the Fuehrer. They'd never have been one of the Conquistadors torturing natives to try to find hidden caches or gold, nor a member of the crowds that showed up to jeer people being burned at the stake for having said religiously unorthodox things, nor a thug beating up women for daring to demonstrate for the right to vote.

But the truth is, every era has its villains -- and the large majority of people are willing to go along with villainy rather than stand up to it. And you can get a pretty good feel for who you would have been in prior times by who you are now. Are you standing up for the weak or helping to keep them in line on behalf of those exploiting them? Are you pushing for social progress, or digging in with the reactionary forces? Are you fighting to promote scientific advances, or treating new knowledge as a threat that should be suppressed? Are you working to preserve our natural heritage, or helping to destroy it to the impoverishment of future generations? Who you are now is who you would have been back then. This era has its villains, too, but like every era, they lack awareness of how their descendants will wind up seeing them.

Count me in the good group.

I stand for what is right.

Which is why I often stand AGAINST the American right.

[Getin the ring]

The sky is not falling, climate changes every day, how's that.

We're fine, God set up a perfect balance, checks and balances, when things die they die for a reason, sometimes to feed other things,

your beach losing 2 inches of sand over 20 years is not the apocalypse

[PoliTalker]

"Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history," a U.N. panel says, reporting that around 1 million species are currently at risk. Here, an endangered hawksbill turtle swims in a Singapore aquarium in 2017.
Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Up to 1 million of the estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are at risk of extinction — many of them within decades — according to scientists and researchers who produced a sweeping U.N. report on how humanity's burgeoning growth is putting the world's biodiversity at perilous risk.
Some of the report's findings might not seem new to those who have followed stories of how humans have affected the environment, from shifts in seasons to the prevalence of plastics and other contaminants in water. But its authors say the assessment is the most accurate and comprehensive review yet of the damage people are inflicting on the planet. And they warn that nature is declining at "unprecedented" rates and that the changes will put people at risk.
"Protecting biodiversity amounts to protecting humanity," UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said at a news conference about the findings Monday morning.
The report depicts "an ominous picture," says Sir Robert Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (commonly called the IPBES), which compiled the assessment.
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"The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever," Watson says. He emphasizes that business and financial concerns are also threatened. "We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide," he says.
The report lists a number of key global threats, from humans' use of land and sea resources to challenges posed by climate change, pollution and invasive species.
"Insect pollinators are unfortunately an excellent example of the problems caused by human activities," Scott McArt, an entomology professor at Cornell University, says in a statement about the report.
"There's actually a newly coined phrase for insect declines — the 'windshield effect' — owing to the fact that if you drove your car at dusk 30 years ago, you would need to clean the windshield frequently, but that's no longer the case today," McArt says.

Heat: Coping With A Warming World
Spring Is Springing Sooner, Throwing Nature's Rhythms Out Of Whack
In its tally of humanity's toll on the Earth, the assessment says "approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year," adding that the figure has nearly doubled since 1980.
Here's a short selection of some of the report's notable findings:
75% of land environment and some 66% of the marine environment "have been significantly altered by human actions."
"More than a third of the world's land surface and nearly 75% of freshwater resources" are used for crops or livestock.
"Up to $577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss."
Between 100 million and 300 million people now face "increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection."
Since 1992, the world's urban areas have more than doubled.
"Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980," and from "300-400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge" and other industrial waste are dumped into the world's water systems.
"Biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity's most important life-supporting 'safety net.' But our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point," says Sandra Díaz of Argentina, a co-chair of the global assessment.
Díaz and other experts portrayed humans as both the cause of the threat and a target of its risks. As humanity demands ever more food, energy, housing and other resources, they say, it's also undermining its own food security and long-term prospects.

"The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," says Josef Settele, a co-chair from Germany. "This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world."
The report found patterns of "telecoupling," which another co-chair, Eduardo S. Brondízio of Brazil and the U.S., describes as the phenomenon of resources being extracted and made into goods in one part of the world "to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions."
That pattern, Brondízio says, makes it more complicated to avoid damage to nature through the usual avenues of governance and accountability.
While the report's eye-popping statistics about what the world stands to lose because of human activity are drawing headlines, conservation advocates say they hope the assessment helps people grasp the bigger picture.
"The hope is that folks will be able to extrapolate beyond the individual stories they've been seeing about orcas or monarchs or bees or bats or caribou or whatever," says Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. He adds that the new report could help people "see that this is a systemic threat that could potentially cause the sixth extinction even, if we don't act quickly."
Hundreds of experts worked together to create the global assessment, with a total of 455 authors representing 50 countries taking part, according to the IPBES.
The agency calls the report one of the most comprehensive assessments of the planet's health ever undertaken, saying it is the first global biodiversity assessment since 2005.
Its findings are based on reviews of some 15,000 scientific and government sources, the IPBES says, adding that in addition to those formal sources, the report also includes insights from indigenous and local communities.
To create the assessment, the IPBES was asked to answer several wide-ranging questions, from reporting on the current status and patterns of change in the natural world to "plausible futures" for nature and the quality of life through 2050. Other questions sought to find interventions and challenges for coping with those changes — and possibly improving dire outcomes.
The goal, the report's authors say, was not only to take stock of a worsening predicament but to give policymakers "the tools they need to make better choices for people and nature."
The assessment highlights dire predictions for habitats and native species in South America and parts of Asia. But the NWF's O'Mara warns that the U.S. also has much to lose — especially if biodiversity is viewed as someone else's problem.
"This is a problem here at home," O'Mara says. "About one-third of all species right now in the U.S. are at heightened risk of potential extinction in the next couple of decades."
Echoing what environmental experts said in Europe as the IPBES released its report, O'Mara says it is not too late to act.

NPR

Gee, what are the chances any of this critical information finds its way into a Republican agenda?


Republicans, they are all about evil.

I am well off; but I care about those who are not.

I enjoy many advantages; but I care about the disadvantaged.

I am not a Christian, not a believer, but I understand science, logic and random chance. I can clearly see that by pure chance we are born into situations. Those of us who were born into good situations tend to take full credit for whatever we accomplish, as if we could have done the same having been born into a very different existence. I look around and I see how lucky I am. I want to share prosperity with those who have never known how good life can be. It only seems like the right thing to do to use what I have at my disposal to help others. I want others to have life as good as I've got it.

I don't want to climb the ladder of success and then pull it up after me. I want to stop half way and extend my hand to help others climb up as well. And that means those who come after me, too.

It is irresponsible to destroy our environment, resources and habitat while enjoying all it has to offer. It is irresponsible to take all of it so that others have nothing.

[Bigdog]

The biggest threat to the environment and endangered species ... are the Asians.

[PoliTalker]

Speaking of "don't give a ----," I totally get it why our country and world are so messed up.

One of the reasons I chat here is because people in my every day life don't want to talk about this stuff. One person in particular actually gets angry if I try to talk about this stuff. As if I am imposing upon them with this droll subject that is so distasteful.

This is highly perplexing. The crucial affairs of our nation and guiding our leaders have a direct impact on our lives. Why somebody would want to shut that all out completely is beyond me. I want to know about what is going on and use that knowledge to help me decide where I stand on the issues, how to vote, when to contact my representatives. I don't see how our nation could function if nobody did that. How can we have a self-government if nobody cares enough to take part in the process? A self-government cannot run on auto-pilot. We have to take part.

But lots of people are so turned off by politics that they want absolutely nothing to do with it. And it is to the point in their lives that if somebody even brings it up, they get a huge attitude in their resistance to even TALKING about it for a MOMENT.

Unbelievable.

Such apathy is what allows big money to be so powerful.

Big money creates negative advertising to drive people away from voting.

Then, the only ones who vote are emotionally motivated by some niche subject like abortion, and they don't give a flying fig that in order to get what they want, they are also making a deal to accept all the massive power give-away to the super-rich so they can get even richer while screwing everybody else and the environment.

Simply amazing.

[Sailor]

When people look back at the history of many decades or centuries ago, they tend to imagine that if they'd lived through such times, they'd be among the good people of the times. For example, if they'd lived in the South in the 1930s, they'd have been Atticus Finch, standing up for justice, not a member of the lynch mob. If they'd lived in Germany in the 1940s, they'd have been Oscar Schindler or a member of the White Rose resistance, not a brown shirt with jackboots and a mindless devotion to the Fuehrer. They'd never have been one of the Conquistadors torturing natives to try to find hidden caches or gold, nor a member of the crowds that showed up to jeer people being burned at the stake for having said religiously unorthodox things, nor a thug beating up women for daring to demonstrate for the right to vote.

But the truth is, every era has its villains -- and the large majority of people are willing to go along with villainy rather than stand up to it. And you can get a pretty good feel for who you would have been in prior times by who you are now. Are you standing up for the weak or helping to keep them in line on behalf of those exploiting them? Are you pushing for social progress, or digging in with the reactionary forces? Are you fighting to promote scientific advances, or treating new knowledge as a threat that should be suppressed? Are you working to preserve our natural heritage, or helping to destroy it to the impoverishment of future generations? Who you are now is who you would have been back then. This era has its villains, too, but like every era, they lack awareness of how their descendants will wind up seeing them.

So. After reading this it is quite clear what needs to happen. Today would be good. Everyone that thinks this is a global enough threat to possibly cause worldwide chaos needs to kill themselves. You know, instead of just yammering about it, actually
do something that will slow it down. Micabwer, you need to the martyr to get this whole movement started.

[anonymoose]

So. After reading this it is quite clear what needs to happen. Today would be good. Everyone that thinks this is a global enough threat to possibly cause worldwide chaos needs to kill themselves. You know, instead of just yammering about it, actually
do something that will slow it down. Micabwer, you need to the martyr to get this whole movement started.

I have to chuckle at these pompous sanctimonious artificial "environmentalists". Here's the pattern.

1. Post an article about how evil humans are destroying everything.
2. Gloat how 'concerned' they are. Makes them feel reeeeeeal good about themselves.
3. Claim they have advanced knowledge of anything somewhat sciency because they (read a science article in Highlights, made a C in General Science 1st yr. of jr. college, took an adult learning class in gardening)
3. Denigrate those that didn't vote for the same presidential candidate as they did last election as being the actual culprits in causing the upcoming apocalypse.
4. Commute an hr. to work in their Nissan Titan with a self satisfying smugness knowing it is them that are saving the planet.

[Micawber]

So. After reading this it is quite clear what needs to happen. Today would be good. Everyone that thinks this is a global enough threat to possibly cause worldwide chaos needs to kill themselves. You know, instead of just yammering about it, actually
do something that will slow it down. Micabwer, you need to the martyr to get this whole movement started.

Thank you for proving my OP correct. You've thrown the actual subject matter in the trashcan instead going ad hom. You won't address
that these findings are troubling and suggest policy options that include pro environmental actions at all levels. You don't address or dispute that the party
you favor will oppose this by any and every means from denial, lying, ad hom attacks, claims of global gubmint, impact of your freedom.... anything and
everything to avoid actually doing a single thing about specie extinction, plastic in food, coastal flooding, food shortage....if it at all impinges
on commerce, or augments it, or basically anything at all.

Thanks for admitting all this, and the fact that you are essentially a bad person for voting as you do. I bet Teddy R would be a Democrat.

[Truth Detector]

"Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history," a U.N. panel says, reporting that around 1 million species are currently at risk. Here, an endangered hawksbill turtle swims in a Singapore aquarium in 2017.

This is the dumbest leftist narrative and talking point on the planet.

The Permian–Triassic (P–Tr or P–T) extinction event, colloquially known as the Great Dying,[2] the End-Permian Extinction or the Great Permian Extinction,[3][4] occurred about 252 Ma (million years) ago,[5] forming the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, as well as between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species[6][7] and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct

Quaternary extinction event saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly megafaunal species, which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity and the extinction of key ecological strata across the globe.

List of extinction events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

Republicans, they are all about evil.

No, that would be the liberal left and all the lies they propagate to promote their economy destroying lie filled ideology.

Here is the bottom line; the earth is assumed to be 4.54 BILLION years old. Man has existed for about 200,000 years. There have been many super spectacular extinction events and massive tectonic changes where entire continents have moved.

Man's time on earth barely registers mathematically on the earths timeline. It is moronic, and incredibly arrogant and inaccurate, to suggest that something as insignificant as man, can cause the destruction of this planet.

I am willing to bet that LONG after man has disappeared; the earth will still be here doing what it has always done, change.

[Micawber]

Thanks also to annoys us for chiming in to register his hand waiving dismissal of all the science and his digression.

The jaundiced morbid cynicism of the right renders them absolutely incapable of looking at a problem. It's all a scam.
It's all a conspiracy. It's all an exercise in hypocrisy. It's all a corporate globalist commie power grab. It's all a psychobabling reflection
of some character defect of the left. Can't possibly be the result of good people doing science, good people supporting them, good people reading their finding a good people wanting
to do something right for the world. Nooooo can't be that. Rush Limbaugh said otherwise. There cannot possibly be a good intention.

These fools are incapable of thinking, their world is so soured by the poor polemics they ingest in lieu of any information.
You are a sad excuse for a citizen. Enjoy your deplorable, world ruining existence, annoysus

[Truth Detector]

When people look back at the history of many decades or centuries ago, they tend to imagine that if they'd lived through such times, they'd be among the good people of the times. For example, if they'd lived in the South in the 1930s, they'd have been Atticus Finch, standing up for justice, not a member of the lynch mob. If they'd lived in Germany in the 1940s, they'd have been Oscar Schindler or a member of the White Rose resistance, not a brown shirt with jackboots and a mindless devotion to the Fuehrer. They'd never have been one of the Conquistadors torturing natives to try to find hidden caches or gold, nor a member of the crowds that showed up to jeer people being burned at the stake for having said religiously unorthodox things, nor a thug beating up women for daring to demonstrate for the right to vote.

But the truth is, every era has its villains -- and the large majority of people are willing to go along with villainy rather than stand up to it. And you can get a pretty good feel for who you would have been in prior times by who you are now. Are you standing up for the weak or helping to keep them in line on behalf of those exploiting them? Are you pushing for social progress, or digging in with the reactionary forces? Are you fighting to promote scientific advances, or treating new knowledge as a threat that should be suppressed? Are you working to preserve our natural heritage, or helping to destroy it to the impoverishment of future generations? Who you are now is who you would have been back then. This era has its villains, too, but like every era, they lack awareness of how their descendants will wind up seeing them.

More brain dead word salad; you never disappoint.

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The Great George Carlin on Global Warming Alarmists:

[Micawber]

^^^^And LOL, this hunk of human excrement thinks I would actually read anthing he pukes onto the WWW.

Dream on fucking loser