How can people understand the scale of the ecological collapse? Let's try to explain with graphs

Today, I prepared an extensive piece, perhaps more philosophical in nature, about how modern society perceives ecological issues. I mean the denial of the very existence of these problems by people, primarily because few can see the big picture. It's difficult to assess the scale.

I decided to use visualization with graphs, and as a tangible example to make it clearer, I referred to cryptocurrency markets. It turned out to be interesting. For instance, people trade on exchanges and perceive every spike in token growth as genuine growth! This repeats over and over without pause, leading people to lose all their savings in speculative markets. Only a few open the full charts to assess the historical state. In reality, almost all tokens drain money like a vacuum, dropping in value by up to 90–99%. This never happens all at once or linearly; it always occurs in stages, driving the crowd again and again.

This example is apt because the same exact thing happens with historical data on the decline of animal populations and the destruction of ecosystems.

On one of the graphs, I presented the situation with tigers. Even without real methods for globally counting the number of tigers in the world, scientists estimate their population to have been at least 100,000 individuals around the 1900s. But today, barely 5% of that original number remains, and by 2010, the population was down to about 3.5%. In other words, tigers worldwide are on the brink of extinction.

And look: from 2010, when there were about 3,200 tigers left, to 2025, the global community managed to restore the population to 5,700 — but without restoring their habitat and food base. On the contrary, pressure on ecosystems has increased, and nature is being destroyed even more! Here's your "growth on the chart": people write to us en masse, saying, "You idiots, you don't understand anything, there are so many tigers now that there's nowhere to put them, the population has almost doubled." Yet this is just a small spike relative to historical numbers, alongside calls to deal with them even faster and on a larger scale!

I believe such materials are needed by people, visualization is very important. I will separately prepare another release on YouTube in the form of a lecture, also covering this topic. Definitely. The material is already published on the website.