On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:39:39 PM UTC-5, ImStillMags Mags wrote:
I have been saying this for decades now. The mass extinction of species is accelerating, yet the mass media totally ignores the ecological realities that threaten our future.
Today the World Wildlife Fund released a report saying that we have lost 50% of all wildlife species in the last 40 years.
No one in power seems to give a shit, In fact most politicians are in complete denial of reality and some of them are straight-out ecological idiots. Stephen Harper and Tony Abbott come to mind immediately.
The World Wildlife Fund has not done much to prevent the decline in species other than to talk about it and collect money to talk about it. The WWF endorses trophy hunting, the Canadian seal slaughter, the fur trade, whaling and pretty much everything else that is contributing to the problem. But hopefully being the WWF, a few people may actually sit up and take notice, but I doubt it.
The three laws of ecology are 1. The Law of Diversity. 2. The Law of Interdependence and 3. The Law of Finite Resources. Diminishing diversity diminishes the quality of life and it diminishes interdependence and the diminishment of interdependence undermines our ability as humans to survive. There is a limit to carrying capacity and the cost of our stealing carrying capacity from other species is diminishment of both diversity and interdependence.
But hey, George Clooney got married so I apologize for distracting from the important issues in our media with such bad news.
50% in 40 years!
The writing is on the wall for humanity but it won't appear in any headlines soon, I can guarantee that.
If the Ocean dies, we die!
Rubbish dumped on the tundra outside llulissat in Greenland stand in stark contrast to icebergs behind from the Sermeq Kujullaq or llulissat Ice fjord – a Unesco world heritage site. Photograph: Global Warming Images/WWF-CanonThe number of wild animals on Earth has halved in the past 40 years, according to a new analysis. Creatures across land, rivers and the seas are being decimated as humans kill them for food in unsustainable numbers, while polluting or destroying their habitats, the research by scientists at WWF and the Zoological Society of London found.
"If half the animals died in London zoo next week it would be front page news," said Professor Ken Norris, ZSL's director of science. "But that is happening in the great outdoors. This damage is not inevitable but a consequence of the way we choose to live." He said nature, which provides food and clean water and air, was essential for human wellbeing.
"We have lost one half of the animal population and knowing this is driven by human consumption, this is clearly a call to arms and we must act now," said Mike Barratt, director of science and policy at WWF. He said more of the Earth must be protected from development and deforestation, while food and energy had to be produced sustainably.
The steep decline of animal, fish and bird numbers was calculated by analysing 10,000 different populations, covering 3,000 species in total. This data was then, for the first time, used to create a representative "Living Planet Index" (LPI), reflecting the state of all 45,000 known vertebrates.
"We have all heard of the FTSE 100 index, but we have missed the ultimate indicator, the falling trend of species and ecosystems in the world," said Professor Jonathan Baillie, ZSL's director of conservation. "If we get [our response] right, we will have a safe and sustainable way of life for the future," he said.
If not, he added, the overuse of resources would ultimately lead to conflicts. He said the LPI was an extremely robust indicator and had been adopted by UN's internationally-agreed Convent
ion on Biological Diversity as key insight into biodiversity.
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