I as soon as saw a gorgeous gannet lying dead on a Cape Cod beach. The Nov. 26 short article “One difficult bird,” about Bonaventure Island’s gannets, advised me of it and, once again, of how “whatever is linked to whatever else.”
In the 1970s, in the after-effects of the very first Earth Day, botany UW-Madison teacher Hugh Iltis would lecture about approaching ecological disasters. He called birds the canaries in the coal mine and ended his lectures with a significant, “Well, folks, the birds are passing away.”
It’s worsened ever since. At the peak of today’s waterfall of ecological crises that are eliminating the gannets are 3 that threaten the future of whatever: environment modification, biodiversity loss and plastic contamination. I think environment modification is the most crucial of these. We have actually almost lack opportunities to restore a steady, habitable environment.
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At the current U.N. environment conference, President Joe Biden guaranteed to lead on environment as he silently authorized brand-new onshore and overseas petroleum leases and a substantial overseas export terminal that will not be functional till 2027. We do not require that sort of management. We should stop brand-new fossil-fuel production and facilities advancement now and act decisively to conserve ourselves, the birds and all the other types our hubris is removing with us.
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