Major Report Paints Grim Picture of Biodiversity

James Watson talks to the Sierra Magazine about the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report on Biodiversity: “I think, frankly, this is one of the few reports which is taking in all the global data, which is getting immense at this point. Even five years ago this amount of information was impossible to see and analyze,” he says. “The IPBES is telling the truth in the way IPCC is telling the truth. It frames the problem in a realistic way. We have never really known how much trouble biodiversity is in and this will allow us to make decisions around that.”