Freshwater is at its all-time most degraded and polluted; the oceans and coral reefs are at their most depleted, while also warming, acidifying, plasticizing, and even suffering from a reduced capacity to hold oxygen. The atmosphere today is at its most altered since yesterday. Coral reefs and polar ice systems are fracturing. The World Wildlife Fund’s 2022 Living Planet Report estimated that from 1970 to 2020, wild animal numbers declined 69 percent globally. Their decline is linked to forces auguring our impending decline; sperm counts among Western men have in the last forty years fallen
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