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World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Recently I've found that I often get sad listening to wildlife. I've got a sense that a lot of what I've seen and heard is very soon to be gone. Not like in 1000 years in some hard to imagine future, but rather maybe within my own lifetime. I'm mourning for a dying world.
I sometimes think about this story about a recording of a now extinct bird; and I remember that there are stacks of other examples of species that have recently gone extinct. Too many for people to even talk about each of them. Just a few nice-sounding high-profile cases capture people's attention every so often.
I do put in a bit of effort in my own lifestyle to not make things worse. But it seems to me that there will be vast damage to the world already before humanity course corrects appropriately. It's very depressing.
Yeah, me too. I read articles like this and just cry inside (and maybe a little outside) because we are watching our world's ruin in slow motion, and it seems like so few care. Certainly not enough people care to make changes happen on the scale we need.