> Environmental protections are actually enforced here. From the device you are typing on, to the palm oil in most of your food, to the clothes you wear, I fin

> Environmental protections are actually enforced here. From the device you are typing on, to the palm oil in most of your food, to the clothes you wear, I find it hard to believe that deep down people aren't even slightly aware of what that makes their lives "quite liveable in 2021" is built entirely on back of rampant environmental destruction elsewhere. Would you really argue a bunch of kids dying of cancer from rare earth mining in someone else's backyard to make an iPhone is not the Western end-consumers fault when they know it is happening? This externalisation and blame-shifting is not something to boast out loud, it's cringeworthy and embarrassing to read, I hope you revisit it in a few decades. > Conservation is properly funded. The extinction rate across the developed world is accelerating[1]. In some US states it's doubled in a few decades. A Harvard biologist estimates around 3 species an hour go extinct.[2] Humans annually absorb 42 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial net primary productivity, 30 percent of its marine net primary productivity and 50 percent of its fresh water[3] [1] https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/ https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur... > The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history. [2] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/extinction/index.html https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_... > One constant, however, is human population pressure. A study of 114 nations found that human population density predicted with 88-percent accuracy the number of endangered birds and mammals [3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494.full https://science.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494.full [3] https://sci-hub.se/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494.full https://sci-hub.se/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/27...