{"id":55142,"date":"2020-09-23T08:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55142"},"modified":"2020-09-23T08:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T13:53:50","slug":"the-dying-planet-report-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55142","title":{"rendered":"The Dying Planet Report 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/09\/23\/the-dying-planet-report-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Dying Planet Report 2020<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_127792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2020\/09\/2560px-NORTH_POLE_Ice_19626661335.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127792\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-127792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph Source: Christopher Michel \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0report, released September 10th,\u00a0describes how the over-exploitation of ecological resources by humanity from 1970 to 2016 has contributed to a 68% plunge in wild vertebrate populations, inclusive of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish.<\/p>\n<p>The report offers a fix-it: \u201cBending the Curve Initiative,\u201d described in more detail to follow. The causes of collapse are found in human recklessness and\/or neglect of ecosystems. It\u2019s partially fixable (maybe) but don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>What if stocks plunged 68%? What then? Why, of course, that is an all-hands-on-deck panic scenario with the Federal Reserve Bank repeatedly pressing \u201ca white hot printing press button,\u201d hopefully, avoiding destructive deflationary forces looming in the background. But, an astounding jaw-dropping 68% loss of vertebrates doesn\u2019t seem to budge the panic needle nearly enough to count.<\/p>\n<p>Of special note, according to the Report, tropical sub-regions were clobbered, hit hard with 94% loss of vertebrate life, which is essentially total extinction. For comparison purposes, the worst extinction event in history, the Permian-Triassic, aka: the Great Dying, of 252 million years ago took down 96% of marine life and has been classified as \u201cglobal annihilation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Report, on a worldwide basis, two-thirds (2\/3rds) of wild vertebrate life has vanished in only 46 years or within one-half a human lifetime. That is mind-boggling, and it is indicative of misguided mindlessness, prompting a query of what the next 46 years will bring. What remains is an operative question?<\/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>The Dying Planet Report 2020 Photograph Source: Christopher Michel \u2013\u00a0CC BY 2.0 The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 [&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":[4],"tags":[5493,30359,23644,12542,30358],"class_list":["post-55142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-ecological-resources","tag-great-dying","tag-robert-hunziker","tag-world-wildlife-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142","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=55142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55143,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions\/55143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}