Trump vs Jane Goodall

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3. I loved Jane Goodall and all the wonderful research she did.

She did however make one glaring mistake. She said " “We're in the midst of the sixth great extinction". That is incorrect. We are in the midst of the first mass extermination. Mankind for the most part knows what we are doing to the earth and its inhabitants. But we are not slowing down or stopping it. Half the insects in world have been killed off since the 70's. When was the last time you saw a flock of birds that numbered in the hundreds. It was a common sight in the 60's when I was growing up in the mid-west. First it is the insects, then smaller animals that rely on them, then the larger animals that eat the smaller ones. We are destroying the food chain from the bottom up. We clear cut forests, or just bulldoze them flat, poison waterways with fertilizers and pesticides, and, especially in the US, have no restrictions on suburban expansion, eliminating more wildlife areas.

We need to immediately reverse most of our harmful practices if we want a livable earth for mankind and the rest of our animal and plant friends.