#Biodiversity and the unsettling present

“Humanity is currently “burning the library of #life."
The massive loss of #wildlife a “biological annihilation” representing a “frightening assault on the foundations of human #civilisation”.
What’s destroying biodiversity?
We are, particularly as the human population rises and wild areas are razed to create farmland, housing and industrial sites. The felling of forests is often the first step...
Giving nature the space and protection it needs is the only answer.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/12/what-is-biodiversity-and-why-does-it-matter-to-us
#Conservation #Wildlife #Extinction #MetabolismWithNature #BiologicalAnnihilation #PlanetaryBoundaries #Logging #Sprawl #Prometheus #GlobalArson #climate