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Nov 26, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Only three percent of the planet's land ecosystems are still intact”

What a shocking and shameful statistic! The tremendous degradation we’ve caused our planet is not unlike the nursery rhyme, β€œAll the king's horses and all the king's men couldn’t put Humpty together again”.

So it is with our planet. We can never put it together again. We can only try to save the pieces that remain.

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Yes, and those pieces are worth the effort. Plus we can do a lot with rewilding, although you will never get back to the original ecosystems

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Nov 27, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I always wonder how many people really can see how much is being cutdown . . . When I took a 2 month road trip I saw plenty. And a flight from A to B even more from above. Perhaps the Space station can make a photo collage to show the impact it has on Earth.

Thank you Alexander

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Actually, there is such a program; Forest Watch run by WRI, together with I believe some 40 other organizations. Every two weeks they compare satellite pictures (and other data) of all forests in the world with those of two weeks before.

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