This comment on reddit has me in a very gloomy mood for the last 24 hours <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwater_fish_are_in_catastrophic_decline_with/goim0yu/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/lqqfgv/freshwate...</a>
I think about this every hour, if not several times an hour. The cognitive dissonance between saving for retirement, expecting a stable government, and this are huge.<p>I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence.
I highly recommend David Attenborough's 2020 Netflix documentary "A Life on Our Planet."<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_Our_Planet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough:_A_Life_on_...</a><p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80216393" rel="nofollow">https://www.netflix.com/title/80216393</a><p>It is his "witness statement" on how he has personally observed enormous environmental changes over his ~70 year career documenting wildlife throughout the world.