Anecdotally, the place where I grew up in was pretty rural and full of wildlife when I was a child in the 90s.
There is a very significant, noticeable change in the amount and diversity of wildlife in what is only a few short years on an evolutionary timeline, especially in the oceans. Where fish, marine crustaceans, birds, otters, whales and dolphins along with a jungle of various kelps and algaes once were, there is sand, urchins, toxic algae blooms, and jellyfish.
I really can’t wrap my head around how much damage we’re doing without even realizing it, and it’s so slow that it feels normal. Sometimes I think about how there could be species existing now that we haven’t yet discovered, and will force to extinction before we ever know they exist.
Non-anecdotally, you just have to go on Google Earth to see how little natural forest remains anywhere in the world. Light green spaces make up most of the world.
Anecdotally, the place where I grew up in was pretty rural and full of wildlife when I was a child in the 90s.
There is a very significant, noticeable change in the amount and diversity of wildlife in what is only a few short years on an evolutionary timeline, especially in the oceans. Where fish, marine crustaceans, birds, otters, whales and dolphins along with a jungle of various kelps and algaes once were, there is sand, urchins, toxic algae blooms, and jellyfish.
I really can’t wrap my head around how much damage we’re doing without even realizing it, and it’s so slow that it feels normal. Sometimes I think about how there could be species existing now that we haven’t yet discovered, and will force to extinction before we ever know they exist.
Non-anecdotally, you just have to go on Google Earth to see how little natural forest remains anywhere in the world. Light green spaces make up most of the world.