{"id":39945,"date":"2018-10-31T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39945"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:07:44","slug":"total-planetary-collapse-the-worlds-vertebrate-population-has-fallen-by-an-average-of-60-percent-since-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39945","title":{"rendered":"Total Planetary Collapse: The World\u2019s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/total-planetary-collapse-the-worlds-vertebrate-population-has-fallen-by-an-average-of-60-percent-since-1970\">Total Planetary Collapse: The World\u2019s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/total-planetary-collapse-the-worlds-vertebrate-population-has-fallen-by-an-average-of-60-percent-since-1970\/earth-in-peril-public-domain-2#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14474\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Earth-In-Peril-Public-Domain-540x360.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Earth-In-Peril-Public-Domain-540x360.jpg 540w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Earth-In-Peril-Public-Domain-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Earth-In-Peril-Public-Domain-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Earth-In-Peril-Public-Domain.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion <a title=\"that any of us have ever seen\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/a-perfect-storm-is-brewing\">that any of us have ever seen<\/a>.\u00a0 The truth is that we are literally running out of everything.\u00a0 We will not have enough oil to meet our energy needs long before we get to the end of this century.\u00a0 The lack of fresh water is already a major crisis in many parts of the world.\u00a0 Our air and our soil are more polluted than they have ever been before.\u00a0 And at this point we can barely feed the entire planet, but global demand for food is expected to escalate dramatically in the years ahead.\u00a0 If we continue doing things the way that we have been doing them, a future filled with famine, civil unrest, environmental chaos and war appears to be inevitable.\u00a0 We are literally on the verge of total planetary collapse, but because this is happening in slow-motion most people don\u2019t feel an urgency to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>And to a certain extent, the damage has already been done.\u00a0 This week, the WWF released a report which found that the vertebrate population of the world has fallen by an average of 60 percent since 1970.\u00a0 the following comes from <a title=\"NBC News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/world-s-vertebrate-population-dropped-average-60-percent-1970-wwf-n926061?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>The population of the planet\u2019s vertebrates has dropped an average of 60 percent since 1970<\/strong>, according to a report by the WWF conservation organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The most striking decline in vertebrate population was in the tropics in South and Central America, with an 89 percent loss compared to 1970. Freshwater species have also significantly fallen \u2014 down 83 percent in that period.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You may be thinking that you are not a big fan of the WWF, and I certainly am not either.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Planetary Collapse: The World\u2019s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970 The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen.\u00a0 The truth is that we are literally running out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8176,150,13652,271,15523,22704,17119,6061,317,319,4759,4901,588,1091,22705,7452,866],"class_list":["post-39945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-air","tag-collapse","tag-earth-changes","tag-environment-2","tag-environmental","tag-environmental-chaos","tag-famine","tag-financial","tag-financial-system","tag-food","tag-michael-ruppert","tag-michael-snyder","tag-oil","tag-soil","tag-the-clock-is-ticking-for-humanity","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39945\/revisions\/39946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}