PLAGUE OF HUMANS CONTINUES TO DESTROY OTHER SPECIES

On September 15/16 the Waterloo Region Record carried the following story titled "Survey finds bird numbers down by 1.5 billion since 1970". The major causes albeit among many are climate change and habitat destruction. Agriculture to feed the plague of humans disturbs habitat of grassland birds and also introduces pesticides into the landscape. More and more pesticides. Logging fragments forests that birds and other species rely upon both for food and shelter. Even free roaming domestic cats kill birds in astonishing numbers. Unmentioned in the article are bird deaths both by wind turbines and by birds flying into glass windows on high rise buildings.

The loss of birds results in less pollination of plants somewhat similar to recent losses of bee populations. Birds also are huge consumers of insects including mosquitoes. More mosquitoes and less birds is a bad combination with ever rising mosquito borne diseases such as West Nile. The statistics regarding particular bird species loss of numbers are in the article. This folks is the future of the earth as long as self important, self-serving homo sapiens rule. The earth can and has sustained life but it's capacity is not infinite. More humans means less of other species and eventually it will be the end of all of us.