' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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David Koch is dead.
The billionaire died this week at age 79 of causes yet unknown. While he certainly enjoyed the fruits of his labors to deregulate U.S. industry and reduce taxes on the super-wealthy like himself, he will never have to experience the consequences of his biggest achievement: putting the entire planet on the brink of crisis in the service of enriching himself and a few other fossil fuel billionaires. And we, the people and future generations who are going to live with the fallout, will never see him or the small cadre of wealthy conservatives who funded decades of climate denial face any form of justice.
If David Koch and his brother hadn’t funded denial — as Charles is likely to continue to do — it’s possible that the world would have taken steps to draw down carbon pollution decades ago. If the world began cutting emissions in 2000, it would have had to do so at a rate of 4 percent per year to keep warming under the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold. Starting today means “monumental” cuts. If we don’t do anything for 10 years, we’re in deep trouble. All the funding Koch kicked in for arts and cancer research won’t matter if the world burns down, a thing that’s actively happening to the Amazon rainforest on the same week he passed away.
More at https://earther.gizmodo.com/david-koch-escaped-the-climate-hell-he-hel
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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https://www.space.com/amazon-rainforest-fires-2019-nasa-satellite-view
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NASA Satellites Confirm Amazon Rainforest Is Burning at a Record Rate
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Horrible.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/science/northern-white-rhino-eggs-f
ertilized.html?
Scientists Fertilize Eggs From the Last Two Northern White Rhinos
A mother and daughter are the only two northern white rhinoceroses left in the world. Their eggs were fertilized using sperm from males who have died.
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When the last male white northern rhino died last year, his daughter and granddaughter, Najin and Fatu, were the only two of their kind left.CreditTony Karumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
With a handful of oocytes and a collection of frozen sperm, an international team of scientists is racing against the clock to ensure that the only two northern white rhinoceroses left on the planet — both females — are not the last of their kind.
On Sunday, scientists in Italy were able to fertilize seven of the 10 oocytes, or eggs, that had been extracted from the two rhinos last week. They used sperm that had been collected from male rhinos before they died.
That outcome was better than expected, said Cesare Galli, the managing director of Avantea, the laboratory in Italy. But it is only one more step in a conservation effort that has spanned continents and lasted for years.
Dr. Galli was working with scientists, veterinarians and conservationists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany, the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic, and the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
“We were really able to do something no one before has been able to do,” said Jan Stejskal, the director of international projects at the Dvur Kralove Zoo. “We still don’t know whether we’ll have embryos, but it was successful anyway. We proved that there is a real chance for them to have offspring.”
Not everyone considers this a worthwhile effort; critics question whether resurrecting an animal that is functionally extinct could draw attention away from other endangered species.
Northern white rhinos, a subspecies of the more populous southern white rhinos, once roamed wild in the grasslands of east and central Africa. They have hairier ears and smaller bodies than their relatives, and some researchers have argued that the northern white rhino should be considered a separate species.
Human efforts to save endangered animals (often made necessary by manmade threats like environmental degradation and poaching) are usually a race against time. But in the case of the northern white rhino, the race is especially urgent.
An animal can be considered critically endangered if there are dozens or hundreds of them left. But in this case, the only survivors are Najin and Fatu, a mother and daughter. And scientists discovered in 2014 that even artificial insemination using frozen sperm was unlikely to be an option for them, since neither seemed physically capable of carrying an embryo to term.
Any hope of natural mating vanished entirely last year, when the only male northern white rhinoceros died.
That rhino, called Sudan, had spent most of his life in the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic. He had been captured from the wild in 1975, which might have saved him. In 1960, there were about 2,000 northern white rhinos in Africa. But the population has since been decimated, in large part by habitat loss and poaching.
Sudan moved to the conservatory in Kenya in 2009 and died at the old age of 45 in March 2018, leaving the two females — his daughter, Najin, and his granddaughter, Fatu — alone at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya’s Laikipia County.
“When he died, it was a sad moment for all of us,” said Stephen Ngulu, the veterinarian in charge at the conservancy. “We knew that we had some sperm that had been collected from him and several other males. So we knew that the only hope for the species was to get the eggs from the female.”
In order to extract the eggs from the two rhinos — using a probe guided by ultrasound — the animals had to be put under general anesthe
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We are a wasteful species, burning thru our resources with no more forethought than bacteria in a petri dish. We can do better.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Nuts, I don't want to go extinct.
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Yanno it's kind of funny, I was just thinking back to the environmental movement of MY day ... starting with Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. My work at the very first recycling center at our end of the state when I was in HS.
In the year 2525 and Mercy mercy me songs. It was quite the thing - many organizations formed, millions of young people committed and politically active in the movement.
What was accomplished?
Looking at the record ... well, not "nothing" but certainly not enough to reverse our self-destructive course.
All of the development and most of decisions have been driven by MONEY: by the wealthy and powerful elite. They even managed to shut down the whole concept of caring for the environment as a credible goal thru control of the media.
Until we manage to take decision-making out of the hands of the oligarchs, we'll be stuck in an endless loop of fecklessness.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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According to a new report from the Friends of the Earth U.S.; Amazon Watch; and Profundo, Larry Fink's BlackRock Inc is one of the top investors in companies "responsible for tropical forest destruction in the Amazon and around the world."
The report called BlackRock's Big Deforestation Problem, published on Amazon Watch's website, claims BlackRock is the top three shareholders in 25 of the world's biggest publicly traded deforestation-risk companies; these companies are known for producing soya, beef, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber, but also have a long track record in burning down forests to clear land for agriculture purposes. The New York-based investment bank is also a top ten shareholder in another 50 of the world's top deforestation-risk companies, the report added.
"The data is clear: from the Amazon to the great forests of Africa and Southeast Asia, BlackRock is a global leader in financing forest destruction," said Jeff Conant, senior international forest program manager with Friends of the Earth U.S., the report's lead author.
"As long as this financial behemoth continues to unconditionally back the world's most destructive agribusiness companies, the forests of the world, and consequently the climate and the rights of forest-dwelling people, will continue to go up in flames. BlackRock is literally reaping profits as the world's jungles burn."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-06/amazon-chaos-blackrock-liter
ally-reaping-profits-worlds-jungles-burn
Amd since the institutions which have the most money ... indeed, have license to CREATE money via the mechanism of partial reserve lending ... are the banks, maybe we should start by looking at the banks to see what they're investing in/lending for.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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I think, on reflection, the answer isn't to get people fired up. I've been thru that already, and while much was achieved because of the mass movement - organizations were formed, people were mobilized, regulatory agencies were created, laws were passed - over time, the push to care for the environment was stalled or blunted or co-opted by corporations: The boards of the biggest environmental organizations and foundations themselves are packed with the wealthy. The agendas of some of the best-known organizations like Greenpeace has become tainted with politics. The corporations are more-than-adequately represented in the rule-making process, enforcement is stalled by lack of money, and there is a serious revolving door at the highest levels of government (altho in my experience mid-level and lower grunts are dedicated professionals seeking to do their best work.)
It's not about writing draconian rules on what kinds of foods people can eat, or how many children they can have, or what they can set their thermostat to. Thats ridiculous. Our military is the largest single waster of energy in the entire WORLD. Why don't we start THERE? Let's change the profit-seeking behaviors which make these destrucive decisions inevitable. Because it's still about money, and that America is an oligarchy. until that's reversed (starting with the media), the interests of the many will never be represented.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Just because the news died doesn't mean the Amazon fires did.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-09-17/amazon-fires-push-forest-closer
-dangerous-tipping-point
Amazon fires push the forest closer to a dangerous tipping point
September 17, 2019 · 12:00 PM EDT
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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