Birds are gone

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91. Habitat destruction due to human overpopulation

And overconsumption is the other big driver.
Factory farmed meat is a huge contributor to climate change.
Population explosion across the globe and increasing destruction of wild spaces and a growing middle class consuming at the rates that are common in the Global North the works over…

You can’t burden a finite planet with 8 fucking billion people, a growing percentage of which buys cars, eats factory farmed meat, destroys habitats, without it affecting biodiversity overall:

https://populationconnection.org/why-population/biodiversity-loss/

Agriculture is the main cause of habitat loss — it currently takes up 50% of all habitable land on Earth, and most of this (77%) is used for rearing livestock. In fact, livestock now make up a staggering 60% of all mammalian biomass on Earth — another 36% is humans, and only 4% is wild mammals. Farmed poultry make up 70% of the biomass of all birds, with wild birds making up only 30%.