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I've felt the impact. When I was a kid going up North for the summers meant hiding out from the blackfly swarms, battling horse flies, catching pollywogs, and w
by agentultra 8y ago
I've felt the impact. When I was a kid going up North for the summers meant hiding out from the blackfly swarms, battling horse flies, catching pollywogs, and watching out for moose. There are no pollywogs anymore, I haven't seen a horse fly in years and frogs are pretty rare to see. You can find polar bears digging in the trash where you'd never see them before.
I don't know if changing our eating habits will help regenerate biodiversity or at least slow down the reduction of it but there are some easy things we can do, that if we all do them, that could have a big impact on the world in a positive way:
1. Go veggie. Or at least try going veggie one or two days a week. Many commodity crops are grown for cattle feed which leads to deforestation and reduction in biodiversity and is a factor in anthropological climate change.
2. Reduce your reliance on biofuels and fuels in general. Palm and canola oil lead to deforestation, monocrops, pesticides, herbicides, etc. The economic incentives and numbers of scale have decimated entire ecosystems for these crops. If able and it makes sense try asking about remote working, use car sharing, demand transportation and cycling infrastructure. Check the provenance of your chocolate, beauty products, for canola, palm, etc oils and buy alternatives without those ingredients.
3. Support philanthropic efforts to protect and restore wildlife and land. Support indigenous rights: there are plenty of corporations exploiting indigenous land and betting on the local governments and people turning a blind eye.
- wutangson1 8y agoSo, rely on OPEC and domestic facking for fuel? At best, biofuels from canola & palm make up <10% of diesel fuel blend.
- agentultra 8y agoI'd like to see a reduction in all sources, impractical as that may seem right now. Palm oil extraction, along with soy crops, has led to massive deforestation in many regions which contribute directly to threatening biodiversity and climate change[0]. It seems unrealistic right now to stop using any source of fuel but I don't really see nature waiting for us to figure it all out. So yes.. reducing fuel use in general is good, palm oil based products are easy to avoid and don't need to be so massively subsidized. [0] https://www.transportenvironment.org/what-we-do/biofuels/why-palm-oil-biodiesel-bad https://www.transportenvironment.org/what-we-do/biofuels/why...
- tridentlead 8y agoYeah, I also haven’t seen a horse fly in quite a while