Five Takeaways from the Latest UN Report on Biodiversity and Why It Matters to All of Us

A UN report released earlier this week warned that we are headed for a catastrophic loss of biodiversity, with up to a million different species of plants and animals facing extinction. The authors of the report concluded that if we don’t do something now to avert this planetary crisis, the loss will have a drastic impact on life as humans know it.

These reports can be overwhelming in nature (no pun intended) and give us the sense that we’re all doomed, so we’ve honed in on five key takeaways from the report that you need to know:

1It’s Late… But Not Too Late

Parents Climate Change

Watson told the Post that we’ve wasted a quarter of a century in wishing away the serious challenges our economies have placed on the planet. “Since 1992, we’ve been telling the world we have a problem. Now what’s different? It’s much worse today than it was in 1992.” However, he said that if by some miracle the world mobilized and implemented the necessary, feasible changes needed to protect biodiversity, we absolutely can avert catastrophe. “[It’s] not too late to make a difference.”

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