Eruionmel t1_it4x5zb wrote on October 20, 2022 at 11:28 PM

Reply to comment by MrOpelepo in States Get More Than $66.7M for Collaborative Efforts to Conserve Most Imperiled Species | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service by VespaLimeGreen

The problem is that it's not uplifting to report on a government spending a ton of money on "conserving" specific species when the entire planet's ecology is collapsing around our ears. We likely have less than a century left of this planet before billions of people die due to the collapse of our food sources and water supplies. Spending $70m on trying to saves the newts isn't uplifting in the face of that knowledge, so it really shouldn't be on this sub.

Mcdibbles t1_it5e71n wrote on October 21, 2022 at 1:35 AM

>less than a century left of this planet before billions of people die due to the collapse of our food sources and water supplies

My brother in Jeebus, we probably have until 2030 before global crop failure starts, with drought being the primary issue, followed by heat and wildfire.

Eruionmel t1_it80537 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:26 PM

Oh, for sure. I'm just usually conservative about time frames when I'm talking about it so that people are more likely to listen. People just shut down and brush it off as conspiracy if you start throwing around dates that are only a few years away. The collapse of the crab populations in Alaska is one of the first in what will be a cascade of collapses, and it's happening now, forget even 7 years out.