- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.
To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.
I’m waiting for the deniers to tell us that it’s normal and happened all over history. Like forest fires, droughts, floods as well as inequality, not being able to afford to buy or build a home, … The little stuff.
If you look at the history of Life on Earth, mass extinctions, are actually kind of routine. Everyone knows about the meteor and the dinosaurs, but there are also 4 other times in history where 85% of species died, and it’s really starting to look like this might be about to see another.