Hello and welcome'm Paul Dickinson.

A new podcast about dealing with the climate crisis and reshaping the world.

My name's Tom Rivit Carnock.

I'm Christina Fijeris.

And I'm Paul Dickinson.

Welcome to this, our first bonus episode,

as we put together a response to the report that came out yesterday

stating that the world's biodiversity and species are in crisis.

We bring you a conversation with Jane Goodall.

So yesterday a major report was launched by an intergovernmental body under the United Nations

that looked at the impact that humans are having on nature and it is very sobering reading.

A mass extinction event is now at hand, with a million animal and plant species threatened.

Nature everywhere is declining at a speed that has never previously been seen under any time scale that has any meaning for humanity

and approximately 25% of species are already threatened with extinction in most animal

and plant groups. Now the rate of destruction of species is

hundreds of times greater than the average over the past 10 million years. Soils are

depleted as never before, plastic pollution has increased tenfold, and only 3% of the Earth's oceans are free

from human pressures. Live coral reefs have halved. The reasons for all of this are very complex, but at root they are a manifestation of the human need for food and energy

Livestock for meat consumption is a massive driver possibly the single largest

Now the report does say that a driver possibly the single largest.

Now the report does say that a complete transformation of how we engage with the natural

world will suffice to enable us to turn away from the brink of this disaster.

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