"The new Living Planet Index report from the World Wildlife Fund opens with a jaw-dropping statistic: we've killed roughly half of the world's non-human vertebrate animal population since 1970."
I keep hearing about different species that are endangered, being poached, losing their habitat, etc. and it doesn't totally register until you see something like this. I remember 1970 very clearly and it doesn't seem so long ago. I think about the future of the planet but have a different perspective on it than someone who has children does. Do I think about future generations? Not so much, I'm more grounded in the here and now (after all, it's all about ME). Do I worry about the future of the planet? Yes, but I'm convinced there won't be much of a future for the planet--what we're doing is negligible to stop the damage, and the U.S. only constitutes a small fraction of the world's population.
Pretty gloomy for a Wednesday. It's rainy and foggy and very pretty in Hawkeye. I like fog and I miss the fog we always had in southern New England. It's rarer here and is seasonal, happens in the fall and spring when the temperatures of the ground and air differ more.
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