None of the themes in the report are new -- we've long known we're screwing up the natural world, which also is the human world -- but the report's findings remain alarming and profound. Our everyday actions -- the consumptive/extractive way our world works now -- threaten to end nature as we know it, much less how our grandparents and great-grandparents knew it. Find other ways to reduce your carbon footprint, too, since climate change and extinction are intertwined in sinister feedback loops. And, he said: Vote for leaders who prioritize nature and the fight against climate change. Perhaps extinction and climate change -- the end of nature -- happen too far away from our city lives for us to observe.

Source: CNN May 06, 2019 09:56 UTC