{"id":209842,"date":"2022-04-25T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=209842"},"modified":"2022-04-21T04:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:31:04","slug":"the-suicidal-war-on-nature-continues-unabated-international-mother-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/the-suicidal-war-on-nature-continues-unabated-international-mother-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated \u2013 International Mother Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

20 Apr 2022 – <\/em>The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians\u2026 or rather not.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year \u2013 an area larger than Denmark, according to a new UN report. Credit: UNDP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat<\/a>, wildfires and floods, as well as a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, have affected millions of people. Even these days, we are still facing COVID-19<\/a>, a worldwide health pandemic linked to the health of our ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Climate change<\/a>, man-made changes to nature as well as crimes that disrupt biodiversity, such as deforestation, land-use change, intensified agriculture and livestock production or the growing illegal wildlife trade, can accelerate the speed of destruction of the planet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHumanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal. The consequences of our recklessness are already apparent in human suffering, towering economic losses and the accelerating erosion of life on Earth,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>
\nAnt\u00f3nio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The message is clear. And has been now, once more, launched on the occasion of the International Mother Earth Day<\/a>, marked 22 April 2022, coinciding with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEcosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet \u2013 and its people. Restoring our damaged ecosystems will help to end poverty, combat climate change and prevent mass extinction\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Making peace with nature<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report \u201cMaking Peace with Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies<\/a>\u201d translates the current state of scientific knowledge into crisp, clear and digestible facts-based messages that the world can relate to and follow up on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal. The consequences of our recklessness are already apparent in human suffering, towering economic losses and the accelerating erosion of life on Earth,\u201d said Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General, in his forward to the report.<\/p>\n

Major facts<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Many staggering facts<\/a> have been repeated on the occasion of Mother Earth Day. Here are just some of them:<\/p>\n