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by biggoodwolf 1105 days ago
Some argument of this form has been posited since at least the 1970s. 50 years of failed predictions from the Neomalthusians
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Estimates suggest that 2/3 of the world's wildlife has died out in the past 50 years[1]. South America has lost more than 90% of its biodiversity. It's not clear what predictions you are claiming have failed. Are you arguing against making any effort to alter this trend?

https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/4783129/LPR/PDFs/EN...

Absolutely! We've killed 2/3 of the world's wildlife and losing biodiversity NOT through climate change. If anything it is a distraction from very real pollution and habitat destruction.

Your attention is constantly pulled to look at something, but the real problems are going neglected.

Coincidentally here's an article about how many animals have been lost from various biomes since 1970: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity...
There is always someone with a vague reference to some undefined past prediction that didn't come true. This, "but why are the glaciers still here, what about the predictions" is really bogus. Rarely do I ever find that the predictions referenced are actually the predictions remembered by the denier.

Meanwhile, looking up past predictions, it easy to find them tracking. Even oil company predictions are tracking.

https://www.science.org/content/article/even-50-year-old-cli...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a....

Yes, and it's provably happening but there's still an army of people willing to deny rapid extinction of many species. At what point will you be convinced?