Global ecology expert Corey Bradshaw on the scale of the biodiversity loss we're witnessing.

[thunderstorm]

scary stuff, that most people do not seem to be able to process these facts

[earthsystem]

You bet we are. There’s hardly any flying insects in Northern California anymore, I haven’t seen a bat for years. Frogs? Never hear them croak. Crickets never hear them chirp. It’s a bug desert in northern California where the Sacramento once flowed in vast rivulets feeding the entire plane

[diamondbackecological]

Even as much as he can tell you, this guy has a fundamental disconnect to his personal ethos and his " message".
In reality "career biologist" translates to either 1) bureaucrat, 2) professor, 3) continually chasing grant money/funding, 4) field technician and/or 5) consultant. A true "biologist" would not define themself as a "career biologist, " which implies that there are strings attached/ it is being done because of the money that is provided.
Money
Money is a fundamental driver, not because fundamentally we need money to survive in so much as we need money to accumulate material wealth and possessions in order to project an arbitrary class and social status identification.
Exactly no different than this guy wearing jewelry which has no real function.
THIS disconnect, is excactly why the world will die.

[marcariotto]

The most epic example of slowly, then suddenly in human history!

[ppetal]

Corey has the data and the numbers. Hard knowledge.