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Manuel: Meine größte Angst ist, dass es viel Leid geben wird für meine Kinder und alle sensible Wesen dieser Welt. Meine größte Hoffnung ist, dass wir aufhören mit Ausbeutung, Profitgier, Wachstum und Konkurrenz und anfangen mit Kooperation, Austausch und gegenseitigem Vertrauen. Aktiv bei Extinction Rebellion, Berlin, 09.07.22
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Extinction Rebellion activists in Leeds. Extinction Rebellion is a socio-political movement with the stated aim of using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
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The sudden extinction of so many well established species requires something more than primitive hunters with spears and arrows. Even with modern automatic weapons it would have required years of round the clock killing.
The Younger Dryas Impactors spread a blanket of death over North America so all encompassing that any species that did survive found itself alone in a new world. It probably took most of the thousand-year cold snap for populations to recover.
For this to have happened so recently and to be almost unknown is something of a paradox.
It shows how meager our information about the past can be.
Some of these animals, dropped into our world, would be very much at home. We would find it uncomfortable, no doubt.
Their existence back then probably was a major impediment to human colonization of North America. Some of them were fearsome predators that would be hard to kill.
Thomas Jefferson, when he sent Lewis & Clark west, specifically instructed them to look for living examples of Giant Ground Sloths or Woolly Mammoths because of the prevalence of these kinds of remains in the east.
Some early explorers in Kentucky described vast bone piles of great antiquity that consisted of all kinds of animals jumbled together. Even today, in Alaska, road builders sometimes encounter "Muck", smelly stinking remains of shredded animals thawing out after being frozen for thousands of years. All of this implies something catastrophic happened at some point in the distant past.
The rejection of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis by some elements of academia is not so much of a conspiracy against anyone. It is just how the hell could we have had such incredible bad luck to have been struck by so many large impacts in such a brief period. The normal rate is like one per 100 k years. The evidence seems to indicate 15 or 20 in around 10 k years, far above what we would expect.
I think we had 4 in one day and that is my jumping ahead of everyone saying that particular argument. It just seems consistent with the information I have seen and I have little to lose by making such an assertion. Scientists need proof, and I am going on intuition with some of my arguments.
However, I think it is worthwhile to bring the thinking around to possibly more extreme scenarios that may be closer to the truth. The severity of the sudden cold temperatures, the extinctions of so many species and lack of a large crater indicate that several smaller impacts into the glacial ice sheet that covered North America is a likely possibility.
The cornerstone of the theory is the breakup of the giant comet around `18,000 years ago. Some ancient stories speak of a time when the sky at night no longer was dark. That is a weird thing to say so there might be something of a clue here. All of the dust from a breakup like this would spread out into a doughnut shaped cloud orbiting the sun. If the orbit crossed that of the earth we would pass near this cloud twice a year. We can still see the remnants of it to this day.
It is the Zodiacal Light.
I am constantly finding new information out about this theory and the more I learn the more likely it seems that it happened. Not only that but the more I learn, the worse the episode seems to have been. Proponents of the theory will eventually find that they have become the mainstream thinking on this matter due to the accumulation of information that convinces enough people they are right.
It's just a matter of time.
Day 5 and the boat is still in Oxford Circus. But not for much longer I think. Police move in to cordon off the boat and a small group around it, including those chained to it of course. Another police team in coveralls moved into the cordon with a battery of power tools and keys.
Environmentalist protesters shutting down downtown streets outside of Union Station as part of a semi-successful campaign to bring DC to a halt.
Washington, DC / September 23, 2019
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A rare bird may become extinct in Syria at the hands of ISIS, after the city of Palmyra where its breeding ground is located was captured by the terrorist group.
A critically endangered species, the northern bald ibis was thought to be extinct in the Middle East for decades until several birds were found nesting near Palmyra more than 10 years ago. Their numbers dwindled to just four wild birds in 2012, and only one female returned from the wintering grounds in 2013. The fate of three more birds in captivity is unknown after their Bedouin guards fled the fighting
The Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon has offered a reward of $1,000 for information on the whereabouts of Zenobia, the only remaining bird who knows the migration routes to wintering grounds in Ethiopia. Ornithologists say that without her, birds bred in captivity cannot learn the migration routes and the species could go extinct in the wild in Syria.
Weston-super-Mare, UK. 30th March, 2019. Protestors against climate stage a die-in on the High Street. The demonstration was organised by Extinction Rebellion Weston-super-Mare. Keith Ramsey/Alamy Live News
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Day 3 and the roadblocks are in place still. Protesters at Oxford Circus are chained to the trailer that holds the boat. Protest technology includes tubes and glue to prevent easy removal.
Australia is widely known for it’s Great Barrier Reef. It houses more than 11,000 species, making it very deserving for holding a place as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The 9,000 year old reef spans a distance of nearly 1,500 miles and brings in around $6 billion annually as well as providing more than 50,000 jobs. It is no secret that corals serve as the reef’s backbone, providing shelter and food for the delicate ecosystem.
As climate change progresses, our reefs, including the Great Barrier, will continue taking hits. As recent as March 2016, the GBR had it’s worst coral bleaching episode in 15 years. Bleaching occurs when water temperatures rise, causing the algae that give the coral their color to leave their tissues, resulting in white and fragile corals. While bleachings are something corals are able to recover from, they are happening so often now that the corals aren’t getting enough time to recover.
Continuing down this road will only result in the loss of one of our wonders. Losing this reef, along with others around the globe, could result in a downfall in the economy, poverty and hunger as well as a complete collapse in the marine ecosystem.
My goal for creating this piece was to personify the death of our beautiful reefs. They are miraculous, beautiful things that provide a home for the world’s marine life and it’s sickening to know that we are killing them by speeding up global warming. Say that out loud once, “I am responsible for the death of the Great Barrier Reef.” It seems a bit unbelievable, but it’s what is happening now. At the rate we’re going, it will just be something that future generations read about in school, like dinosaurs and dodo birds. If we don’t make some changes, our coral reefs will no longer exist.
The October rebellion Day 2. Eco Santa canvases Christmas wishes at Trafalgar Square. World peace and a reduction in CO2 emissions are high on the list.
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I came across this exhibition in the botanical gardens in Cape Town in 2006. The names of an extinct floral species was written on a piece of cloth and placed in the ground.
Weston-super-Mare, UK. 30th March, 2019. Protestors against climate stage a die-in on the High Street. The demonstration was organised by Extinction Rebellion Weston-super-Mare. Keith Ramsey/Alamy Live News
An estimated four billion American chestnut trees along the East Coast of the U.S.A. were wiped out in a few decades by an invasive fungus. The deadly fungus introduced from Asia in the early 1900s rendered American chestnuts functionally extinct – and, to this day, there isn’t a cure. Tree saplings still sprout but they rarely mature. Now, with climate change accelerating, the threat is evolving.
Human-vulnerability isn’t far-fetched. Fungal pathogens like “Candida auris” have already shown how quickly a resilient fungus can spread in healthcare settings. [Source: “Candida auris: an Emerging Fungal Pathogen” in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology,” Jan, 24, 2018].
Climate change is a catalyst. That should be a wake-up call. If it enables a deadly fungus to thrive in human hosts – especially one with airborne transmission – the implications could by catastrophic. Ecological collapse and human health are not separate stories.
Extinction Rebellion Joined the World Naked Bike Ride.
outside the Grand Hotel Brighton June 2019. At least they did not threaten to drone the place unlike Heathrow. History reminds us when causes turn to terrorising us all they tend to loose support. Negotiations and peaceful protests are what most folk want and are willing to tolerate in democratic societies
Weston-super-Mare, UK. 30th March, 2019. Protestors against climate stage a die-in on the High Street. The demonstration was organised by Extinction Rebellion Weston-super-Mare. Keith Ramsey/Alamy Live News
What Daniel Sherrell and his activist friends call The Problem is global warming, which they see as looming more and more over everything, yet it continues to be ignored by most politicians and governments, while they may sometimes pretend to do something minimal to delay it. Copied on an iPad from the Kindle edition.
Colourful and eyecatching messages on a roundabout in Stroud.
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