Let Nature Heal Climate and Biodiversity Crises, Say Campaigners. Restoration of forests and coasts

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The Guardian, April 2019. The restoration of natural forests and coasts can simultaneously tackle climate change and the annihilation of wildlife but is being worryingly overlooked, an international group of campaigners have said.

Animal populations have fallen by 60% since 1970, suggesting a sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is under way, and it is very likely that carbon dioxide will have to be removed from the atmosphere to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. Trees and plants suck carbon dioxide from the air as they grow and also provide vital habitat for animals.

“The world faces two existential crises, developing with terrifying speed: climate breakdown and ecological breakdown,” the group writes in a letter to the Guardian. “Neither is being addressed with the urgency needed to prevent our life-support systems from spiralling into collapse.

“We are championing a thrilling but neglected approach to averting climate chaos while defending the living world: natural climate solutions. Defending the living world and defending the climate are, in many cases, one and the same.”

The signatories include the school strikes activist Greta Thunberg, the climate scientist Prof Michael Mann, the writers Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein and Philip Pullman and the campaigners Bill McKibben and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. -MORE...

More, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/03/let-nature-heal-climate-and-biodiversity-crises-say-campaigners

[CrispyQ]

1. When are we going to address the base problem?

There are too many humans all striving for an American dream lifestyle.

SIX BILLION MIRACLES IS ENOUGH

I bought that bumper sticker around the turn of the century. The global pop clock has us at 7.7 billion. In less than 20 years.

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2. An enormous issue which should have been addressed years

ago along with lethal carbon emissions from fossil fuels known to be toxic. Recent scientific and economic reports have issued even more dire warnings about the reality, so what it will take to seriously confront the problem I don't know.