NERMEEN SHAIKH: So scientists warn that melting sea ice in the Arctic due to climate change will have catastrophic effects on coastal cities, biodiversity and the global economy. President Trump of course has called climate change a Chinese hoax. So Ashley, your response to what Pompeo said just hours after this U.N. report was released?
ASHLEY DAWSON: I think it typifies the kind of extractivist attitude, which as I said, is destroying the planet. To give one concrete instance, we have been exploiting land so much and degrading land that we only have about 60 harvests left. Right? Sixty agricultural harvests left.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: What does that mean?
ASHLEY DAWSON: It means about only 60 more years of food, potentially. So we’re not only talking about a kind of crash of biodiversity and potential extinction for a lot of species out there; we’re talking about a kind of fundamental crisis of humanity, its relationship to the natural world and our relations to one another.
SOURCE
Shocking UN Report Warns up to a Million Species are at Risk of Extinction Due to Human Activity, MAY 9TH, 2019, DEMOCRACY NOW
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/9/shocking_un_report_warns_up_to
ASHLEY DAWSON: I think it typifies the kind of extractivist attitude, which as I said, is destroying the planet. To give one concrete instance, we have been exploiting land so much and degrading land that we only have about 60 harvests left. Right? Sixty agricultural harvests left.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: What does that mean?
ASHLEY DAWSON: It means about only 60 more years of food, potentially. So we’re not only talking about a kind of crash of biodiversity and potential extinction for a lot of species out there; we’re talking about a kind of fundamental crisis of humanity, its relationship to the natural world and our relations to one another.
SOURCE
Shocking UN Report Warns up to a Million Species are at Risk of Extinction Due to Human Activity, MAY 9TH, 2019, DEMOCRACY NOW
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/9/shocking_un_report_warns_up_to
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