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[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

Worldwide animal populations have dropped by over 70% in the past 50 years.

According to Scott Adams, any significant data are false. Were polar bears under or over reported one time or another? Worldwide animal populations includes the subterranean biosphere.

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[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by freebeard

According to Scott Adams, any significant data are false.

Then how do we know if anything is actually true? A 73% decline that can't be trusted would have to have a huge margin of error.

Worldwide animal populations includes the subterranean biosphere.

Sorry for not being more specific. The more-than-70% decline I mentioned is from monitored vertebrate animal life.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-...ystem-in-peril

[redpoint5]

"The figures don't lie, but liars do figure".

Ants are animals, and I would be horrified to learn that the current number of them are a mere fraction of how many there used to be.

Mosquitos are animals too, and we're told they are proliferating.