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"The time is now: the crisis resulting from climate change is huge, impossible to ignore, and demands an immediate response of an unprecedented magnitude in our history. Flavia Broffoni is the leader of Extinction Rebellion in Argentina, and tells us how civil disobedience is one of the ways for the world to remain our world and last for long. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and environmental policy, but she defines herself as an "anti-extinction activist and regenerative practitioner." Among many works, she was Policy Coordinator of the Wildlife Foundation / WWF and Director of Environmental Strategies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the City of Buenos Aires. She is the founder of AI.Re, a regenerative intelligence accelerator and coordinates the non-violent civil disobedience movement "Extinction Rebellion" in Argentina. "

"Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems", according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century."

"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but

"Last year I went to West Kalimantan in Borneo to see for myself the effects of the runaway growth of the palm oil industry. I came home firm in the belief that Iceland would not continue using palm oil until companies delivered on their zero deforestation commitments. This is because palm oil has had devastating consequences for local communities, who are being displaced, and on endangered species like the orangutan (our closest relative in the wild), which are being driven close to extinction. Palm oil has many benefits, chiefly that its yields are better than the alternatives. But it is grown almost exclusively in areas of tropical rainforest, which are the 'crown jewels' of our planet's biodiversity. With 146 football pitches of rainforest being lost every hour in Indonesia alone, the urgency of the crisis cannot be overstated. And global demand is set to double by 2050. At Iceland the 1,000 tonnes of palm oil we used annually pale into insignificance compared to many of our competitors. As such a tiny player we took the decision that the only way we could create meaningful change was to shout very loudly from outside the established palm oil industry. So we decided simply to stop using palm oil until the industry cleaned up its act. It was our own decision to give consumers a choice where previously there was none. We never called for a wider industry ban, and accept entirely that a wholesale boycott of palm oil is not the right long term solution. ..."

"As I've pointed out previously, I doubt there will be a human on Earth by mid-2026. Indeed, I doubt there will be complex life on this planet by then. It'll be a small world, as was the case in the wake of each of the five prior Mass Extinction events on Earth. Bacteria, fungi, and microbes will dominate."

En 2018 pasaron dos cosas que me cambiaron la vida: me convertí en padre y el IPCC publicó ese demoledor informe en el que advertía que solo teníamos 12 años para evitar una catástrofe climática irreversible. La ansiedad climática es mala compañera, pero a mí me sirvió para abrir una página de Facebook y empezar a hacer vídeos alertando de la crisis climática y ecológica en la que estamos sumidos. Fue una necesidad, una vía de escape, necesitaba hacer algo. Necesitaba un nombre. Hope. Esperanza. Me niego a dar por sentado que vamos a cargarnos la absolutamente maravillosa biosfera que hemos heredado. Jamás hubiera esperado que pasara lo que pasó: en los primeros doce meses los vídeos superaron los 200 millones de reproducciones, y el número de seguidores superó el medio millón. Gente de todo el mundo. Menuda responsabilidad, necesitamos más medios, más gente, más conocimientos. Y ahí aparecieron Fernando Prieto, Fernando Valladares, miembros de Ecologistas en Acción, de Extinction Rebellion, de Fridays for Future, de Climate Reality, de Greenpeace, de WWF… para ir apoyando y acompañando el trabajo que estaba teniendo un impacto viral en las redes sociales. Esto cristalizó en un Consejo Editorial formado por grandísimos científicos, velando por que los vídeos fuesen completamente rigurosos y asegurando que el mensaje que está trasladando la ciencia en las publicaciones especializadas se trasladase correctamente a un terreno completamente opuesto: las redes sociales. Vídeos cortos y dinámicos que se comparten cientos de miles de veces y que ya han superado los 400 millones de reproducciones. Y aquí es donde nos encontramos ahora, gracias al apoyo de decenas de personas que contribuyen con una pequeña cantidad mensual a través de Patreon, somos capaces de mantener este trabajo editorial y de divulgación científica en el momento en el que más importante es que entendamos profundamente la magnitud de la emergencia a la que nos e

"La velocidad a la que están desapareciendo los insectos es ocho veces mayor que la de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles, señala un informe "Los insectos son el corazón de toda cadena alimenticia, polinizan la mayoría de las plantas, mantienen el suelo saludable... La realidad es que los humanos no podemos sobrevivir sin los insectos", afirma Dave Goulson, de la Universidad de Sussex Científicos confirman la relación entre la química cerebral y la conducta se produce un descenso del 2,5% anual en la cantidad total de insectos, una cifra que sugiere que podrían desaparecer por completo en un siglo. EFE Los insectos de todo el mundo están camino de la extinción y amenazan con generar un "colapso catastrófico de los ecosistemas", según el primer análisis científico global. Las principales conclusiones arrojan que más del 40% de especies diferentes están disminuyendo en número y un tercio de ellas están en peligro de extinción: la velocidad a la que están desapareciendo es ocho veces mayor que la de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles. Según los datos más precisos que han podido obtenerse, se produce un descenso del 2,5% anual en la cantidad total de insectos, una cifra que sugiere que podrían desaparecer por completo en un siglo. El planeta está al inicio de la sexta extinción masiva de su historia: ya se han registrado colosales pérdidas en animales más grandes que son más fáciles de documentar. Sin embargo, los insectos son de lejos los animales más abundantes y variados, con una población 17 veces mayor a la de la humanidad. Los investigadores afirman que son "esenciales" para el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas, ya sea como comida de otras criaturas, para polinizar las plantas o reciclar nutrientes."