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    1 year ago

    Anecdotally, the place where I grew up in was pretty rural and full of wildlife when I was a child in the 90s.

    There is a very significant, noticeable change in the amount and diversity of wildlife in what is only a few short years on an evolutionary timeline, especially in the oceans. Where fish, marine crustaceans, birds, otters, whales and dolphins along with a jungle of various kelps and algaes once were, there is sand, urchins, toxic algae blooms, and jellyfish.

    I really can’t wrap my head around how much damage we’re doing without even realizing it, and it’s so slow that it feels normal. Sometimes I think about how there could be species existing now that we haven’t yet discovered, and will force to extinction before we ever know they exist.

    Non-anecdotally, you just have to go on Google Earth to see how little natural forest remains anywhere in the world. Light green spaces make up most of the world.