#Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, warns @IPBES #GlobalAssessment Report The Report outlines the best available evidence on #TransformativeChange & policy options to restore & protect #Biodiversity
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Aug 4, 2020 · 10:02 AM UTC

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Good summary, but it is falsely blaming population growth only. Per capita consumption is expected to rise by 200% in the same period while pop will grow less than 50%, so consumption growth is much more responsible for these effects than population growth.
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Hi Diana, thanks for nothing this important point, as the Global Assessment identified demographic & sociocultural dynamics as 1 of 4 groups of indirect drivers which represent the values & behaviours underpinning the 5 direct drivers of biodiversity loss ipbes.net/news/Media-Release…
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...especially because those areas where the population is still rising have typically the smallest per capita environmental footprint; they eat and waste the less, the least meat, etc. It is us, in the rich world, whose hunger for growing consumption drives this trend.