It’s like what is going on in this country with Covid ignore it as even my governor is cancelling mask mandates in less than a month as will Oregon… then the next variant will break out and slaughter because the US is ‘so done with covid’ like the disease gives a shit.
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Since I don’t have TV no NetFlicks in this house so I haven’t seen it but do I really need to? What I see happening in these mountains and what I read certainly does bolster the movie’s premise: Nobody is going to be bothered. And nobody really wants to pay attention anyway.ĭon’t Look Up. Everywhere I look there is more destruction under the radar because there is just too much to report on. Africa this time and a Canadian oil company.
Here’s another one of those ‘nobody hears about this shite’ articles. I’ve embedded below another important discussion between Professors Paul Ehrlich and Guy McPherson titled: A Conversation with Paul Ehrlich On a similar theme this great You Tube presentation from ” Human Decimation of Earths Creatures:” The suppression of despair, like that of any deep recurring response, contributes to the numbing of the psyche”. “Because of social taboos, despair at the state of our world and fear for our future are rarely acknowledged.
China’s Global Infrastructure Initative Could Bring Environmental CatastropheĪlso mentioned was this quote from Joanna Macy: It’s hard for me to think where the sand, let alone the energy for this project will come from,considering to all intents and purposes we have consumed the planets ‘construction sand’ already. It’ll span half the planet - from Asia to Africa, Europe and the South Pacific.” As currently planned, it will involve some 7,000 separate infrastructure or extractive industry projects scattered across 70-odd nations, with a total price-tag of $8 trillion. I mentioned in the interview “The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) simply blows out of the water anything else that’s been attempted in human history. Under the 2 E/MSY background rate, the number of species that have gone extinct in the last century would have taken, depending on the vertebrate taxon, between 800 and 10,000 years to disappear.” Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Even under our assumptions, which would tend to minimize evidence of an incipient mass extinction, the average rate of vertebrate species loss over the last century is up to 100 times higher than the background rate. The latter is conservatively low because listing a species as extinct requires meeting stringent criteria. We then compare this rate with the current rate of mammal and vertebrate extinctions. First, we use a recent estimate of a background rate of 2 mammal extinctions per 10,000 species per 100 years (that is, 2 E/MSY), which is twice as high as widely used previous estimates. We assess, using extremely conservative assumptions, whether human activities are causing a mass extinction. Earlier estimates of extinction rates have been criticized for using assumptions that might overestimate the severity of the extinction crisis. “The oft-repeated claim that Earth’s biota is entering a sixth “mass extinction” depends on clearly demonstrating that current extinction rates are far above the “background” rates prevailing between the five previous mass extinctions. These tragic tales, coupled with eighty-three color photographs from the world’s leading nature photographers, display the beauty and biodiversity that humans are squandering.”įor a slide show of the wonderful photo’s and illustrations in this book click on the following link The Annihilation of Nature “In this beautiful book, three of today’s most distinguished conservationists tell the stories of the birds and mammals we have lost and those that are now on the road to extinction.
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