The World Wildlife Fund just released their living planet report for 2018. Up front it seems it seem the report could well be titled the dying planet instead of the living planet report given the summary states “On average, we’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The top threats to species identified in the report link directly to human activities, including habitat loss and degradation and the excessive use of wildlife such as overfishing and overhunting.”
You can read the full report here.
or here
https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2018
Please pass along the report to all who care and even those that may not.
Photo: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 2018.
nature has no boss 
Wonderful image, Mike. I am not sure I can handle any more depressing news…but thanks for providing the information for when I get the strength. 😉
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Hi Jane, I feel the same and fortunately the antidote for all this depressing news is action.
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Important report. Thanks for sharing it.
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Hi Martha and yes a very important report and one that really drives home what I think we all have been feeling.
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Sad news, but not surprising with massive growth, industry given free reign, and populations far beyond that which our planet has ever seen.
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Hi George and thanks for passing along this report. Your thoughts are well supported and I am not sure how we address the concept that we have too many people on the planet to share it with earths other creatures. Sure we can find ways to produce food and keep expanding populations alive but is that really the point to this whole thing?
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I don’t know the point of it all but the simple answer is: way too many humans with no plan to slow down… It will eventually self-correct of course but our descendants will pay heavily for it.
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Hi George and yes there will be a correction and unfortunately as you suggest it will be a painful event for those living at the time.
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What a stunning photo! Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks and thanks for taking the time to leave us some feedback. Hope your day is going well.
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Thanks for access to the report, even though it is so depressing. We all need to be aware and take what action we can. I hope everyone remembers to vote this issue.
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Hi Patti, yes we all need to vote and vote for people who will work to preserve the earth instead of extract it’s resources for profit and vote local as well.
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Thanks for posting this, Mike, though I can’t hit the ‘like’ button. This is such a sad state of affairs, it breaks my heart. With no end to human greed in sight, one wonders where this insanity will take us.
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Hi Eliza, yes there are some things we just can’t like and this report is one of them. It does feel like we are at the end of an era and life may change very quickly in the near future.
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I think about this every day, it feels like we are in a canoe without a paddle and can hear the thunder of falls ahead. 😦
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That is a good analogy. Humanity in a giant canoe, some looking for a paddle, some deny the approaching falls and some who have given up.
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Pretty much what Eliza said. You have to wonder about the tipping point when you see reports like this…
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Hi Adam, yes the tipping point is a good question and I am not sure we will have realized we have tipped until we are well on the downward slide with will be exponential and fast not linear and slow.
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A disaster that could have been helped but our leaders don’t care.
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Hi Sherry and yes who we elect is important.
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What can one say that hasn’t already been said…I don’t see it any other way than that we humans are living at the end of a golden age and that the world is about to become a very bad place to be in the next 100 years. Without a huge cut in human population it is hard to see how all of this can be anything other than the start of our own demise as well as all those species we directly impact. So sad that so many just don’t see why they should try to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Hi Graham and I agree with you thought that we are at the end of an era. The world does seem to be heading into one of those proverbial bottlenecks with human population growth and decreasing resources (i.e. everything non-human).
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Hi Tanja, yes it a a sad state of affairs for the non-human inhabitants of our planet.
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