Posted on 06/20/2015 12:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, researchers have declared.
Researchers say a new study shows 'without any significant doubt' that we are entering the sixth great mass extinction on earth.
The study says that the window for conserving threatened species is rapidly closing.
The study shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,' said Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment who led the research.
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate....
Despite the gloomy outlook, there is a meaningful way forward, according to Ehrlich and his colleagues.
'Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations – notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change,' the study's authors write.
In the meantime, the researchers hope their work will inform conservation efforts, the maintenance of ecosystem services and public policy....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Moral of the story: Live, love, drink or whatever you like to do but do it often cause no one gets out alive.
Only a massive decrease in the planets population can help now. Something like 3/4 of the people will have to go. One half to simply stop the degeneration and rapid over consumption of resources which include sea life and fresh water for the growth of food.
that’s funny. I just shingled the roof last week. New furnace going in this week. Bathroom is in the middle of being retiled. 3 cars all coming due for an oil change. And now I have to worry about going extinct on top of all that.
Only human action can stop human action from destroying the planet. And leftist see no logical faults with that statement. How about some humane inaction from the totalitarian statist of the world.
This is a classic example of evolution in action. A problem with a built in solution.
Several of us talk about the Fallout scenario - the Fallout video game. Just subtract nukes (maybe) and you see in that game exactly the world we are headed for.
Look back through history and the whole thing repeats. The Dark Ages were the last time it happened. Society hit a plateau and imploded on it’s own arrogance, sloth and sheepish stupidity. The result looked a lot like Fallout.
In all honesty, there is no fixing this. Sure we should fight it. But the population of the planet simply doesn’t want anything but MOAR! ov the same crap dooming them. There are not enough of us in any position to change that. The left succeeded in their goal of stupidizing and enslaving the population to their freebies. They destroyed critical and logical thought/reasoning.
So at some point, we collapse. Then most of us die. Then the strong survive. It’s just what ‘is’ is.
I think you are a “denialist” (that word for people who won’t accept the ‘truth’).
You need to get wise here and prepare for the mass extinction. Stop mowing your grass. Stop painting. Stop eating nutritional foods and eat lots of sugar and fatty foods. Smoke as much as want, unfiltered. Drink to excess. Drive as fast as you want.
Exactly! By the way, it's Paris -- 2015.
Expect a tide of lies to flow forth...
Many people for many years said that often. We were ignored and mocked as tinfoilers. But we were right.
I honestly don’t know whats wrong with the human mind. One group of people say “You all have to die so that the planet may live”. Another group says that the first is insane and gives proof. And a third group, the vast majority of the population says “Oh thats tinfoil! They don’t REALLY think that way - Then sends group 1 more money to think that way and eliminate them.
Scientists have known for sometime that some species of animals just stop reproducing. Despite normal mating habits and none signs of pollution or disease, that reproduction on a species level can come to a screeching halt.
"In 1990, Teresa Heinz met Senator Kerry at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time they met before Senator Heinz died in a plane crash on April 4, 1991. In 1992, they met again, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was a member of a State Department delegation appointed by then-President George H. W. Bush. Their courtship began in 1993, and they were married May 26, 1995, on Nantucket, Massachusetts. Choosing to remain registered as a Republican until John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004, she kept her name Teresa Heinz."
2004: Teresa Heinz Kerry -A First Lady of sustainability?
"For the first time in U.S. history, the White House may soon be guided by principles of sustainability: the capability of the ecosystem to accommodate economic activity indefinitely. If John Kerry becomes president, his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry would push environmental policy domestically and globally in the direction of lessening threats ignored by the Bush administration: toxic pollution, global warming, and petroleum dependence.
On February 6 at the University of Tennessee College of Law, Heinz Kerry spoke with me during and after her address on health and energy-related issues. (I had spoken there the day before.) This was just prior to the Tennessee primary election which John Kerry won. As she spoke in favor of massive renewable-energy technology investment and the revision of disposal practices to redirect waste into reusable products, one could have wondered if this was a re-run of Clinton-Gore posturing for some green votes.
The answer is no, if we consider her long-time interest in toxicology and nonprofit work, as well as the depth of her understanding of the issues. She gave examples of the threat of indoor pollution and medical and dietary risks to public health, such as estrogenic carcinogens. She also displayed knowledge of how research is manipulated by industry.
There is no sustainability in the way we think she said. How refreshing to hear such a realization from someone who could be at the pinnacle of policy formation, after decades of the U.S. frittering away nature's health and wealth. An example of reorienting economic priorities toward sustainability is Heinz Kerry cradle to cradle approach to reducing consumer junk that has almost entirely gone directly to landfills: before counting on recycling and reusing, products must be manufactured with materials and processes that make it possible to avoid the usual cradle to grave& syndrome. She displayed a nontoxic ball of fiber, colored with vegetable dye, made by a major chemical manufacturer, designed to become a basic material for an updated consumer product to replace what has already had its use as a rug.
Heinz Kerry repeatedly mentioned that her husband had gone to four Kyoto Protocol conferences, more than any other candidate or past major U.S. politician. This in itself is not sufficient comfort for anyone concerned about climate change. However, she did not imply that we must give up on nature as we knew it and adapt to global warming. That approach is what most governments and their corporate backers advocate, but such a view is rapidly becoming discredited and untenable by the latest developments in climate science news: (a) one quarter of all species, approximately, will be extinct or going extinct by mid century, thanks to human-induced global warming, and (b) the imminent shut down of the Gulf Stream, due to global warming's icecap melt and greater rainfall on the ocean, is setting up the northern hemisphere for a sudden ice age within a few years.
An ice age for the nations using most of the world straining heating oil supplies that would be diverted from diesel fuel manufacture, for example would trigger a global energy crisis. Along with the fact that world oil extraction is peaking an historic event triggering for the world economy such unavoidable supply tightness that it can't be alleviated in time to avoid economic collapse fossil-fueled growth may be in its last days. Heinz Kerry has no naivete about advocating a completely renewable-energy economy: She said we need to keep using fossil fuels and nuclear. She says no more nuclear plants should be built because we don't know how to deal with the radioactive waste very well.
Although Heinz Kerry has the charm and patience of the best nonpolitician you would want to spend an evening with, she nevertheless could not sign a petition to Tennessee's governor, placed before her by a local activist fighting mountain-top-removal coal mining. Although there can be no justification for what this extreme form of extraction does to streams and rivers, Heinz Kerry's aides successfully argued on the spot that her signing the petition could be used by the right wing. But a copy of the petition was accepted for her future possible signing.
Heinz Kerry is a most informative commentator on key issues relating to our survival as a species. Moreover, she is open to a broad inclusion of these issues, unlike the funded environmentalist establishment. Here is how she responded to a question before the audience regarding petroleum: I asked, Given problems such as global warming, unending road building that causes urban sprawl, and overpopulation related to over-dependence on petroleum for agriculture, would you advocate the formation of citizen petroleum councils? These would utilize industry expertise to identify threats to sustainability, and be created on local to international levels to arrive at solutions. Her response was that such an idea was along the lines of what should be mandatory education. She felt that schools, PTAs and churches should be utilized for such initiatives as citizen petroleum councils, although she warned, Americans are busy. They also like to take care of matters when they feel like it, although they do deal with a crisis once they get going.
The importance of dealing with petroleum might justify our temporarily disregarding some of John Kerry's disappointing political stands: He is gung-ho for huge Homeland Security funding, and he voted for the Patriot Act and the attack on Iraq. Perhaps worst of all, his economic agenda may be Clinton-Bush all over again: he has been pro-NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). But we should encourage progressive tendencies such as his concern over climate change, and those of his wife's, and not cut ourselves off from alliances even when other disagreements may turn out to be unresolvable.
Heinz Kerry is in favor of so-called green cars and greater fuel-economy standards for internal combustion engines. She responded positively to an audience query about boosting rail transportation. People got the impression that her husband, even if president, would not be foolish enough to dismiss her well-reasoned positions. The audience also could tell she was speaking for the candidate, who of course was benefiting from her ability as his alter ego? to travel to a key campaign location and represent him. There is more than a career or political commitment at work: there at the Knoxville presentation was her son Andre Heinz, whom she wanted me to meet. He works at The Natural Step in Stockholm. I asked him, What is your interest in all this? The presidential-looking young man answered: Sustainability. Bravo, and amen.
2015!
Right.
I have Nov 2016 on the brain.
http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/john-holdren
The Heinz Awards - John P. Holdren - 7th Annual - March 2001
Dr. John Holdren receives the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his prodigious contributions to such complex issues as arms control, sustainable development and global energy resources. Dr. Holdren is that rare scholar who is also a born negotiator, one who is able to inspire colleagues and students to new heights of effort and understanding while possessing the ability to cut to the heart of a problem and offer new perspectives on which consensus can be based. Dr. Holdren’s contributions to public policy are noteworthy, not simply because of their quality and scope, but also because they span a number of disciplines.
He is credited with playing a significant role in mobilizing the international community of policymakers and scientists to take action in the arms control area, where he has been a powerfully effective advocate of U.S. attention to the security of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials in Russia. He has been extremely active in the international policy dialogue regarding global environmental degradation and resource conservation.
He has served in a wide variety of advisory roles for policymakers in state, federal and international agencies since the early 1970s, and he became a member of President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) when it was formed in 1994. Dr. Holdren chaired the first study requested from PCAST, which led to a revision of U.S. policy on cooperation with Russia on nuclear materials protection. Also in the mid-1990s, he co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ reshaping of U.S. policy on the management of this country’s weapons-grade plutonium. And from 1995 into 1999, he chaired a series of PCAST studies on revising U.S. energy research strategy to more effectively address the challenges of the 21st century, including especially the challenge of global warming.
Dr. Holdren has been a member since 1973 of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international group of scholars and public figures who meet regularly to discuss ways to reduce the dangers from weapons of mass destruction and to build international cooperation on other common problems. He served as chair of the executive committee of the Pugwash Conferences from 1987 to 1997, and was chosen by his colleagues to give the acceptance speech when the organization shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.
Dr. Holdren has been an extraordinarily effective and articulate leader in shaping public policy, not only through his various advisory roles to government but also indirectly, as an educator engaged in training the next generation of leaders in science and technology policy. He is currently at Harvard University, in both the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, which named him as its first Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy. Additionally, he serves as Visiting Distinguished Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center.
Dr. John Holdren has had a profound influence in international efforts to reduce the dangers of nuclear conflict, achieve solid cooperation in energy-technology innovation and shape new understanding and policies relating to a workable strategy to ensure sustainable development of the earth’s resources. He has had an enormous impact on bringing the tools of science and technology to bear on the challenges of formulating public policy to cope with the economic, environmental and security challenges posed by the scientific and technological advances of the 20th Century.
Note: This profile is excerpted from the commemorative brochure published at the time of the awards’ presentation.
UPDATES SINCE RECEIVING THE HEINZ AWARD
October 2010 - John Holdren, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, is this year’s recipient of the Hans A. Bethe Award, a prestigious science award presented by the Federation of American Scientists “for his enduring work on complex global issues that hinge on science and technology, such as the causes of climate change, analysis of energy technologies and policies, and ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons.” - The Washington Post
December 2008 - John P. Holdren, a physicist and environmental policy professor at Harvard, has been appointed as the president’s science adviser in the role of director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, and will additionally serve as co-chairman of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. - The New York Times
July 2006 - Holdren co-writes article with Alan Leshner stating that there is no doubt about the reality of climate change and that the United States, “as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide on the planet, needs to become a leader in developing and deploying serious solutions.” - The San Francisco Chronicle
February 2006 - John Holdren takes office as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
June 2005 - John Holdren becomes the second director of the Woods Hole Research Center. The organization, which focuses on environmental research with an emphasis on “preserving forested regions such as the Amazon River Basin in Brazil,” was established in 1986 by George Woodwell, another Heinz Award recipient and the man who Holdren will succeed as director. - The Boston Globe
March 2005 - Holdren and the National Commission on Energy Policy, which he co-chairs, release a report that endorses the use of “biomass electricity and biofuels as a strategy to meet U.S. energy needs.” The report, which was entitled Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenges combines two years worth of research with conscious proposals for United States’ energy future. - BioCycle
December 2004 - John Holdren is elected to the office of president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
July 2003 - Holdren serves on a panel of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that address the future of nuclear energy issue. The report concludes that “the nuclear option should be retained precisely because it is an important carbon-free source of power.” - U.S. Newswire
February 2003 - Holdren co-chairs a panel with Nikolai Laveroc, of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Russia, which was called “to appoint a joint committee to develop a roadmap for submarine dismantling”, that would focus on fuel conservation. The panel is also to serve as an example of strategic cooperation between Russia and the United States, hopefully serving other agendas like “nonproliferation, nuclear safety and environmental security.” - Nuclear Waste News
Well I, for one, will celebrate when Ehrlich and the many other shameless, ever failing, pagan false prophets join the “mass extinction.”
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I recall a very funny episode in South Park where Eric Cartman supposedly became psychic after a fall from a rooftop while trying to fly. In the passage of the story he was beset by other psychics from the Psychic Detectives Union upset with his scabbing. They fought using their sheer mind power (along with various sounds) and then parted when nothing happened. Later you see a news blurb where Eric had given a tip that the killer was indeed a group of killers holed up in a local motel. The same hotel where these Psychic Detectives were staying. A bloodbath ensued and they were all disposed of.
“.....“Do you realize there’s not one leftist scientists who has predicted anything like this who has ever been right? The top of that class is Paul Ehrlich, who, back in 1970 some odd wrote a book called ‘The Population Bomb ‘saying by 2000 we’d be finished. That the earth couldn’t even come close to supporting a population that the world indeed has today.”
Despite that prediction, Limbaugh said, “He’s still a guru. He’s still a hero. He’s still a go-to source. He’s still at Stanford. He hasn’t been discredited at all. He couldn’t be more wrong. He’s still a leftist hero because he advances the liberal agenda, which is fear, chaos, panic, you name it, whatever it takes to get people to sign on and vote for bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom. So he’s ideal.”
Regarding Fenner’s alarmism, he said, “Now, we adults are smart enough to read this and let it go in one ear and out the other, particularly we conservative adults, but you take the fragile minds of most people on the left and children, who absorb in this stuff, and I ask you, is it really hard to understand when you learn they’ve lost confidence and faith in everything.”
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/rush-lowers-the-boom-on-doomsayers/
I have my issues with Rush at times but he has been a solid voice on the econazi movement.
Here’s a bit of a blast from my own past in dealing with these fools...
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/wrr39/lycos.htm
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