Happy Earth Day
It has been some 46 years since we started celebrating Earth Day. It was a very different planet than compared to now.
Internet cat videos weren’t around to distract us. Millennials hadn’t yet graced the planet. Simon & Garfunkel had the biggest hit song of the year.
In less than two generations of humans, the populations of vertebrate animals have dropped by 52% between 1970 and 2010.
We often hear about the plight of various endangered species, and the fact of the matter is that experts are starting to think we’re on the verge of a sixth mass extinction in the entire 3.8 billion year history of life on this planet. However, to most people, species are kind of an abstract concept; so is the academic term "biodiversity," which is so frequently used. On this day just take a moment to think about what the next 2 generations will bring, if we stick to what we have been doing so far.
Photographed here are some Sandhill Cranes at first light over the Rio Grande, One of the oldest living animals on earth.
Happy Earth Day
It has been some 46 years since we started celebrating Earth Day. It was a very different planet than compared to now.
Internet cat videos weren’t around to distract us. Millennials hadn’t yet graced the planet. Simon & Garfunkel had the biggest hit song of the year.
In less than two generations of humans, the populations of vertebrate animals have dropped by 52% between 1970 and 2010.
We often hear about the plight of various endangered species, and the fact of the matter is that experts are starting to think we’re on the verge of a sixth mass extinction in the entire 3.8 billion year history of life on this planet. However, to most people, species are kind of an abstract concept; so is the academic term "biodiversity," which is so frequently used. On this day just take a moment to think about what the next 2 generations will bring, if we stick to what we have been doing so far.
Photographed here are some Sandhill Cranes at first light over the Rio Grande, One of the oldest living animals on earth.