' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'

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REAVERFAN

Friday, June 7, 2019 1:08 AM

This article hits all the main points about our upcoming extinction and it's a short read.

Near Term Human Extinction in 5 Acts
https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/near-term-human-extinction/

WISHIMAY

Friday, June 7, 2019 1:26 AM

http://www.kristinholt.com/archives/10240

Interesting read on the weather in the 1880's.

REAVERFAN

Friday, June 7, 2019 5:59 AM

THE EXTINCTION CRISIS
It's frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we're now losing species at up to 1,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].

Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. In fact, 99 percent of currently threatened species are at risk from human activities, primarily those driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, and global warming [3]. Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species' extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_
biodiversity/extinction_crisis/

REAVERFAN

Monday, June 10, 2019 10:47 PM

Meat eaters are destroying the planet, says report
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...t-warning-a7985071.html?utm_sour
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The new report, Appetite for Destruction, launched at the Extinction and Livestock Conference, says the consumption of animal products is leading to a vast and increasing amount of land being used for crops.

This is threatening areas including the Amazon, Congo Basin and the Himalayas, where water and land resources are already under significant pressure, the report warned.

Excessive animal product consumption is responsible for 60 per cent of all biodiversity loss, according to WWF, with the UK food industry alone directly linked to the extinction of an estimated 33 species.

REAVERFAN

Monday, June 10, 2019 10:48 PM

Never mind CCTV in slaughterhouses – we need to end the meat and dairy industry altogether
It isn’t just horrific for the animals, producing meat also has a huge effect on the environment and health consequences to humans – even those of us who are vegan
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/meat-dairy-vegan-slaughterhouses-
vegetarian-a7891046.html

According to the UN Food and Agriculture organisation, greenhouse gases from producing livestock make up 14.5 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – that’s more than all transport combined, including cars, buses, boats – and even planes. According to Nasa, clearing land to raise livestock is one of the leading causes of deforestation – we’re literally destroying the earth’s lungs and precious ecosystems to raise farmed animals.

Moreover, studies show that the average amount of water needed to produce one pound of beef is1,799 gallons. This is compared to a pound of soybeans which takes 216 gallons, and a pound of corn which takes 108 gallons. Considering more than 40 per cent of people worldwide are affected by water scarcity, shouldn’t we be trying to produce food in the least water intensive ways possible? Instead we’re using vast amounts of water and land to grow crops, to then feed to animals to then feed to people. Why don’t we just eat the crops?

Water scarcity is not the only human cost of eating animals. Just this week, millions of eggs have been recalled from supermarkets across the globe for fear that they contain the hazardous substance Fipronil. Eating meat puts humans at risk of diseases like swine flu, bird flu and mad cow disease; I’ve yet to see an outbreak of lentil flu.

Animal farming is contributing to the growth of diseases like E Coli and MRSA and helping them develop further resistance to antibiotics. The NHS has warned against antibiotics used in farm animals, saying that they are a threat to human health.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 6:46 AM

lol. Not gonna happen, soy boy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Not gonna happen, soy boy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

No one here thinks you're bright enough to make connections with your wet brain.

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 11:00 PM

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genocide-coming
-but-its-worse-than-that.html

"As recently as a year ago, when I explored worst-case scenarios for climate change, alarmism of this kind was considered anathema to many scientists, who believed that storytelling that focused on the scary possibilities was just as damaging to public engagement as denial. There have been a few scary developments in climate research over the past year — more methane from Arctic lakes and permafrost than expected, which could accelerate warming; an unprecedented heat wave, arctic wildfires, and hurricanes rolling through both of the world’s major oceans this past summer. But by and large the consensus is the same: We are on track for four degrees of warming, more than twice as much as most scientists believe is possible to endure without inflicting climate suffering on hundreds of millions or threatening at least parts of the social and political infrastructure we call, grandly, “civilization.” The only thing that changed, this week, is that the scientists, finally, have hit the panic button.

Because the numbers are so small, we tend to trivialize the differences between one degree and two, two degrees and four. Human experience and memory offers no good analogy for how we should think about those thresholds, but with degrees of warming, as with world wars or recurrences of cancer, you don’t want to see even one.

At two degrees, the melting of ice sheets will pass a tipping point of collapse, flooding dozens of the world’s major cities this century. At that amount of warming, it is estimated, global GDP, per capita, will be cut by 13 percent. Four hundred million more people will suffer from water scarcity, and even in the northern latitudes heat waves will kill thousands each summer. It will be worse in the planet’s equatorial band. In India, where many cities now numbering in the many millions would become unliveably hot, there would be 32 times as many extreme heat waves, each lasting five times as long and exposing, in total, 93 times more people. This is two degrees — practically speaking, our absolute best-case climate scenario.

At three degrees, southern Europe will be in permanent drought. The average drought in Central America would last 19 months and in the Caribbean 21 months. In northern Africa, the figure is 60 months — five years. The areas burned each year by wildfires would double in the Mediterranean and sextuple in the United States. Beyond the sea-level rise, which will already be swallowing cities from Miami Beach to Jakarta, damages just from river flooding will grow 30-fold in Bangladesh, 20-fold in India, and as much as 60-fold in the U.K. This is three degrees — better than we’d do if all the nations of the world honored their Paris commitments, which none of them are. Practically speaking, barring those dramatic tech deus ex machinas, this seems to me about as positive a realistic outcome as it is rational to expect.

At four degrees, there would be eight million cases of dengue fever each year in Latin America alone. Global grain yields could fall by as much as 50 percent, producing annual or close-to-annual food crises. The global economy would be more than 30 percent smaller than it would be without climate change, and we would see at least half again as much conflict and warfare as we do today. Possibly more. Our current trajectory, remember, takes us higher still, and while there are many reasons to think we will bend that curve soon — the plummeting cost of renewable energy, the growing global consensus about phasing out coal — it is worth remembering that, whatever you may have heard about the green revolution and the price of solar, at present, global carbon emissions are still growing."

It seems to be policy that when such awful news is shared, the author has some obligation to palliate it with a dose of hopium.

He's way too optimistic.

JONGSSTRAW

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:07 AM

A truly demented and delusional pack of LIES! A fractured fairy tale for the very dim-witted.

But it has a good beat.

REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 6:34 AM

It's amusing watching trolls scream meaninglessly at established science.

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