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1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.
After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.
What would they report home?
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1. Suppose an alien spaceship will land on earth next week.
After many light-years of travel through space, some friendly little green creatures decide to get out and stretch their legs on our planet.
What would they report home?
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2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.
Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.
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2. I guess their first description would be ecstatic.
Hidden in the fast, cold, and dark universe, they discovered a blue planet that brims with an incredible diversity of life, aided by ideal living conditions.
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3. But:
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.
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3. But:
Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has lost 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants.
Of all the mammals on earth, 96% are livestock and humans, while only 4% are wild mammals.
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#wildlife #biodiversity #climatecrisis
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4. Humans like to dominate and destroy for short-term gains but fail to preserve the ecosystems they need in any long-term strategy to benefit them as a species and all life on the planet.
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4. Humans like to dominate and destroy for short-term gains but fail to preserve the ecosystems they need in any long-term strategy to benefit them as a species and all life on the planet.
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5. That flaw is most notable in our never-ending hunger for more consumption and growth.
It is a lifestyle that doesn't fit within nature's capacity on this modestly-sized planet.
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5. That flaw is most notable in our never-ending hunger for more consumption and growth.
It is a lifestyle that doesn't fit within nature's capacity on this modestly-sized planet.
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#climate #extinction #consumption #nature #animals #greeneconomy
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6. The 15th United Nations biodiversity conference discusses biodiversity loss and the collapse of ecosystems that sustain all life on the planet. It hopes to tackle biodiversity loss with concrete targets.
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#COP15 #ForNature #post2020 #FoodSystems
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6. The 15th United Nations biodiversity conference discusses biodiversity loss and the collapse of ecosystems that sustain all life on the planet. It hopes to tackle biodiversity loss with concrete targets.
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#COP15 #ForNature #post2020 #FoodSystems
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7. If all nations would follow up on their National Determined Contributions to reduce emissions, the world would still warm to a high fever of more than 3C.
(and that is a big 'if')
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7. If all nations would follow up on their National Determined Contributions to reduce emissions, the world would still warm to a high fever of more than 3C.
(and that is a big 'if')
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8. So COP26 is where the countries should raise their ambitions and present revised NDCs.
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8. So COP26 is where the countries should raise their ambitions and present revised NDCs.
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9. If you compress the 4.5 billion years of earth's history into one year, those destructive humans only crashed the new year's party at the last minute.
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9. If you compress the 4.5 billion years of earth's history into one year, those destructive humans only crashed the new year's party at the last minute.
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10. In the final half-second, we begin to emit the greenhouse gasses at a scale that will rapidly change our climate.
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10. In the final half-second, we begin to emit the greenhouse gasses at a scale that will rapidly change our climate.
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