Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extinction. Show all posts

Thursday, September 5, 2024

wind turbines kill HOW many birds?

 328,000 a year or so.

guess how many birds cats kill?

a little under 2 billion-with-a-b. but i don't see anyone rushing out to ban cats.

wanna see what else kills crazy numbers of birds? click here.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

shell and exxon predicted climate change effects in 1980's

despite the fact that exxon, in particular, has funded climate change denial on a global scale, the company's own scientists (and shell oil's) predicted catastrophic effects as a result of the use of fossil fuels as early as 1982... but kept the information from the public.

amongst their findings? sea level rise of 15 to 28 feet. the american midwest becoming a desert. loss of fresh water sources worldwide. but wait... it gets worse.

Sunday, July 26, 2015

recent extinctions

we are in the middle of the 6th mass extinction in the earth's history. here is a list of the animals that have gone extinct in just the last 100 years.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

bayer sues to kill more bees

bayer manufactures a pesticide that has been determined to be one of the key factors behind the worldwide bee die-off. this pesticide was recently banned in europe (but not the united states). so bayer is suing 'europe'.

Friday, March 21, 2014

9 fisheries driving extinctions

according to a report by oceana, between 17% and 22% of what u.s. fishermen catch is thrown back - dead - into the sea. this is called 'bycatch'. aside from wasting up to 2 billion tons of food per year, it's driving many species toward extinction.