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🐝 1. Bees
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🦋 2. Butterflies & Moths
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🐦 3. Birds
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🦇 4. Bats
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🐜 5. Ants & Beetles
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🐁 6. Rodents
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🐒 7. Monkeys
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😯 8. Humans
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These are all pollinators.

And they're all endangered. 💔
The planet we think we're living on no longer exists.👇

Go through this insane thread to learn about the 6th mass extinction, climate breakdown & ecological collapse, all caused by the destructive madness of corporate capitalism.

System change required👇
Bees, butterflies, bats, and birds are all pollinators, and they are all in serious danger.grist.org/food/mass-exti…
Climate change, habitat loss, pollution and disease are threatening pollinators.

independent.co.uk/environment/be…
The alarming, decades-long decline of butterflies, including those listed under the Endangered Species Act.

blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/t…
'two-thirds of butterfly species have declined in the UK over the past 40 years'.

theconversation.com/climate-change…
67% of North America's birds are threatened with extinction from climate change.

ecowatch.com/climate-change…
once widespread creatures such as the puffin, snowy owl and turtle dove are plummeting towards oblivion

theguardian.com/environment/20…
theconversation.com/white-nose-syn…
“It’s clear from climate change projections that this is set to escalate in the future".

independent.co.uk/news/world/aus…
blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-cou…
theconversation.com/australian-end…
nytimes.com/2016/06/15/wor…
16.5% of bird and mammal pollinators (that includes bats, marsupials, monkeys, lemurs and rodents) are currently threatened with extinction.

audubon.org/news/what-do-b…
Human pollinators:

'Pesticide use has led to a drastic reduction in the area’s bee population, threatening the fruit crop. Workers now pollinate fruit trees artificially, carefully transferring pollen from male flowers to female flowers to fertilize them.'m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57…
5C - 6C would be 'enough to wipe out most life on the planet':
truthout.org/articles/killi…
5C or 6C by 2065?

See thread for existential threats this century:

IUCN RED LIST:

Human
Homo sapiens
"LEAST CONCERN"
Last assessed: 30 June 2008.

I think this should be updated...

iucnredlist.org/species/136584…
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