> - global wildlife population declined by 70% since the 70s

Here's an example of how to bullshit. The original report is here: https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/press-releases/catastroph...

And it's missing the word "monitored". And then you read the methodology:

> The LPI measures changes in the sizes of 35,803 populations of 5,790 vertebrate species (amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals and reptiles) that have been monitored over time. The latest LPI shows a decline of 73% (73.2%). This means that the size of these populations fell by, on average, 73% between 1970 and 2022.

> This doesn’t mean that there are 73% fewer wild animals in total today than in 1970. The LPI measures changes in relative abundance, not the total number of animals. Changes in small populations with few individuals are averaged with changes in large populations of thousands of animals. Nor does it mean that 73% of species or populations are declining. In fact, around half of the studied populations are stable or increasing – but these gains are outweighed by the greater magnitude of losses elsewhere when calculating a global average.

So basically, it's a made-up number.

Ok and what's the current copium for this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction