A drop from 60% to 68% means that in two year population of all mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, dropped by 20%.

https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/08/23/teachers-this-one-neat-trick-could-save-your-life/#comment-896558

I cited an article which linked to the Living Planet “020 report, here is the intro:

8 BILLION REASONS TO SAFEGUARD NATURE

At a time when the world is reeling from the deepest global
disruption and health crisis of a lifetime, this year’s Living Planet
Report provides unequivocal and alarming evidence that nature
is unravelling and that our planet is flashing red warning signs of
vital natural systems failure. The Living Planet Report 2020 clearly
outlines how humanity’s increasing destruction of nature is having
catastrophic impacts not only on wildlife populations but also on
human health and all aspects of our lives.

This highlights that a deep cultural and systemic shift is urgently
needed, one that so far our civilisation has failed to embrace: a
transition to a society and economic system that values nature,
stops taking it for granted and recognises that we depend on nature
more than nature depends on us.

This is about rebalancing our relationship with the planet to
preserve the Earth’s amazing diversity of life and enable a just,
healthy and prosperous society – and ultimately to ensure our
own survival.

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in millions
of years. The way we produce and consume food and energy,
and the blatant disregard for the environment entrenched in our
current economic model, has pushed the natural world to its limits.
COVID-19 is a clear manifestation of our broken relationship with
nature. It has highlighted the deep interconnection between nature,
human health and well-being, and how unprecedented biodiversity
loss threatens the health of both people and the planet.

It is time we answer nature’s SOS. Not just to secure the future of
tigers, rhinos, whales, bees, trees and all the amazing diversity of
life we love and have the moral duty to coexist with, but because
ignoring it also puts the health, well-being and prosperity, indeed
the future, of nearly 8 billion people at stake.

https://www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/LPR20_Full_report.pdf

Trickle down economics, or economics of year on year growth ignore the realities here. This is why it is essential to get rid of the Dumpf Trump else we will be talking more about the United States of Trumpistan.

Jeffh pointed out once again:

It has annihilated nature across much of the biosphere, pushing many terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems to their breaking point.

You would have thought any intelligent thinking person who bothers to carry out due diligence would appreciate the truth of that, but no not our resident Trump passing, republican voting reality illiterate.

Here is more evidence of the bad things we are doing.

Animal populations have plunged an average of 68% since 1970, as humanity pushes the planet’s life support systems to the edge

Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on Earth.

On average, global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles plunged by 68% between 1970 and 2016, according to the WWF and Zoological Society of London (ZSL)’s biennial Living Planet Report 2020. Two years ago, the figure stood at 60%.

Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report .

It’s become very clear that rickA and mikeN are doing nothing other than that.

What an asinine comment.
My mikeN monumentally ignorant bingo card is now full.

If I can get just one reader here to review the transcripts and realize they are being manipulated and misled, I feel my time here has been rewarded.

Good luck with that.

The much more likely outcome is that they will continue to view Donald “I take no responsibility” Trump as a failed ‘president’ who has done nothing but peddle denialism, snake oil and blame-shifting throughout the Coronavirus crisis.

I repeat: yYou can quibble the details but it makes zero actual difference.

Once again:

It doesn’t matter how hard you try – you cannot defend Trump effectively. It simply isn’t possible.

All that happens is that you look more and more dishonest and, frankly, deranged.

Trolling…

Sad.

BBD says “It doesn’t matter how hard you try – you cannot defend Trump effectively. ”

Maybe not. I leave that for the readers to decide. I don’t try to defend every Trump tweet or action – I just pick out the attacks I think are fake and try to expose them.

The fine people hoax – which has been debunked, but which was cited by Biden during the DNC convention.

The drinking bleach (or injecting disinfectant) hoax – which has been debunked, but which is widely believed to democrats.

The Russian collusion hoax – Trump never colluded with Russia to interfere in the election.

All fake news pushed by outlets which edit videos to try to mislead and hoodwink their viewers and readers. If I can get just one reader here to review the transcripts and realize they are being manipulated and misled, I feel my time here has been rewarded.

Who knows – maybe even one of the regulars, who relied on others opinions of what to believe will have actually read a transcript and realized they didn’t have an accurate handle on reality – but had misunderstood what had really happened.

Carbon dioxide is not pollution.