The UN says a million species could go extinct. Here's how we fix nature:
Recently I've come to realize how biodiversity loss has actually changed my home and it's all I've been thinking about since the new UN report was released today.
See, millions of sheep and cattle once roamed this region, an extravagant abuse of the land that has made it inconceivable to envision it ever supporting a fraction of those numbers anytime soon.Venture over a mountain ridge or two in just about any direction and you're liable to find sage-free grasslands thriving in neighboring valleys.
The activities that rendered it this way are now nearly a century in the past, a debt to nature that has been paid for by multiple generations since. And not just in the opportunity to lie back and relax on a soft bed of wild grasses, but also in the destruction of the agricultural economy here that has never really recovered. As such, eighty percent of the children that go to the school my daughter attends qualify for free or reduced lunches.
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