Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilisation. The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

My thoughts on this news

Slowly but surely humans continue to be the cause of their own self destruction, unfortunately most of them do not even know it. According to this study since 1970 about 60% of animal life on this planet has died, all thanks to human destruction of the environment and the habitats these animals live in. Nature is a life support system for humans, when nature is gone humans will begin to suffer massive rates of death also, just like these animals have been. When the waters are polluted, when the land is polluted and when it is too hot to grow food. The majority of humans on this planet will die. We could be seeing a mass extinction event right before our eyes within the next 50 to 100 years.