Article snippet: However, mankind can stop the destruction through “transformative change” that could translate into globalism replacing national sovereignty and nations’ self-determination. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever,” Sir Robert Watson, chairman of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which produced the report. “We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.” Watson added: The introduction to the report said: Although the U.N. presents its report as “scientific,” its authors and advocates promote climate change as settled fact and praise political movements that embrace manmade global warming ideology, including students skipping classes to protest. Watson said: The massive report’s introduction has pulled some of its findings for bullet points, including evidence of human progress that the report deems a threat: • 300%: increase in food crop production since 1970 • 3%: increase in land transformation to agriculture between 1992 and 2015, mostly at the expense of forests • +/-13 million: forestry industry jobs • 50%: agricultural expansion that occurred at the expense of forests • 1%: total land used for mining, but the industry has significant negative impacts on biodiversity, emissions, water quality, and human health • +/-6,500: offshore oil and gas ocean mining inst... Link to the full article to read more