The new Living Planet Index report from the World Wildlife Fund opens with a jaw-dropping statistic: we've killed roughly half of the world's non-human vertebrate animal population since 1970.
I have trouble caring about this. Don't get me wrong, I know this is "bad" - I simply can't make myself care. In the same way that I know I should have an opinion on Edward Snowden. I know I should care, I simply don't. I know that having 35,000 Walruses on one beach because there's no ice is terrible. And honestly, the picture there has made me react more than anything else I've seen. I know it's very, very, bad. And I'm even for green tech and some environmental conservation and all of that. I just have trouble caring about it. Of all the things the media (or, parts of it) tell me to care about, I just don't have room for this. Though, next time I get into an argument with someone who says space exploration is an idiotic waste of money, I'll definitely be showing the overpopulation statistics. Always nice to have (yet another) an article on it.