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Birds in the United States are not only declining, but they are declining faster, especially in areas with intensive agriculture, according to new research. Overall drops in bird population, measured from 1987 to 2021, were sharpest in warm and warming areas, suggesting that climate change may play a role.

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. “What we found is that any metric of agricultural intensity was always the best predictor of acceleration of the decline.”

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy
    11·
    6 hours ago

    Part of me tries to rationalize the current state of the world as a last gasp by those who know we’re all doomed and can’t change anything. The elite and powerful. And instead of trying to fix anything, they’ve all decided they’re gonna go balls to the wall before it’s all fucked beyond repair.

    • HasturInYellow
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      Unfortunately, they did it. They won if that was their goal. We could still get vengeance but we’re not preventing anything.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 hours ago

      And they think they want to live forever too. Like Zuck with his bunkers, who tf is going to take care of him when it all goes to shit? Money isn’t going to be worth anything. Maybe that’s why he trained for MMA, lol.

    • Boomer Humor DoomergodEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      We will end up as an oily radioactive smear in the geological record. And that’s fine with me.

    • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Seems like that would just piss off 99% of the population and ensure those responsible a terrible fate once billions of desperate humans get so fed up they’ll become capable of pretty much anything. I’m guessing a lot of these people are already so old they don’t care or so insulated the don’t understand the danger they’re putting themselves in.