Environment in multiple crises - report

[Gulli]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47203344

What issues are being under-played?

• Topsoil is being lost 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished by natural processes
• Since the mid-20th Century, 30% of the world's arable land has become unproductive due to erosion
• 95% of the Earth's land areas could become degraded by 2050

These matters are close to home for British politicians, the authors argue, with the average population sizes of the most threatened species in the UK having decreased by two-thirds since 1970.

The UK is described as one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.

Some 2.2 million tonnes of UK topsoil is eroded annually, and over 17% of arable land shows signs of erosion.

Nearly 85% of fertile peat topsoil in East Anglia has been lost since 1850, with the remainder at risk of being lost over next 30–60 years.


Are they wrong?

Part of the 'England are really bad for this' statements are because we collect more data here than a lot of other places in the world I think. So we are worse than countries that have no data.

Not that this means we are doing ok.