Diabolical World Govt Fails to Secure Biodiversity

Ecosystems and species driven ever closer to collapse

World governments, or World Government to be precise, have failed to meet a 2010 target to stop loss of biodiversity, and its NOT interested to do what is needed to preserve the species and ecosystems without which humans and other animals cannot survive,  a UN  report said [the wording is that of Fire-Earth.]

The mounting pressures on biodiversity risks pushing some ecosystems into new states, with severe ramifications for human wellbeing as tipping points are crossed. While the precise location of tipping points is difficult to determine, once an ecosystem moves into a new state it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to return it to its former state. Source: Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

The following are excerpts and extracts from the UN report:

Extinction Risk

Species which have been assessed for extinction risk are on average moving closer to extinction. Amphibians face the greatest risk and coral species are deteriorating most rapidly in status. Nearly a quarter of plant species are estimated to be threatened with extinction.

Abundance of Vertebrate Species

The abundance of vertebrate species, based on assessed populations, fell by nearly a third on average between 1970 and 2006, and continues to fall globally, with especially severe declines in the tropics and among freshwater species.

Extensive Fragmentation and Degradation

Extensive fragmentation and degradation of forests, rivers and other ecosystems have also led to loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Crop and Livestock Genetic Diversity

Crop and livestock genetic diversity continues to decline in agricultural systems.

The Five Principal Pressures

The five principal pressures directly driving biodiversity loss (habitat change, overexploitation, pollution, invasive alien species and climate change) are either constant or increasing in intensity.

Humans’ Ecological Footprint

The ecological footprint of humanity exceeds the biological capacity of the Earth by a wider margin than at the time the 2010 target was agreed.

Human Impact Visuals [Click images to enlarge.]

The following images were sourced from the UN report:

Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine is the world’s largest man-made excavation. It is almost 4.5km across and more than 1km deep. [Like Mountaintop Removal] TR Open pit mining has been an important cause of habitat destruction in some regions. It is the type of activity increasingly subjected to environmental impact assessment. The Convention on Biological Diversity recently agreed voluntary guidelines on the inclusion of biodiversity factors in such assessments. Click images to enlarge.

Coastal Wetlands – Before and After.

Glaciers – Before and After

Tropical Coral Reef – Before and After

Water Eutrophication – Before and After

Related Links:

• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change (Part II)
• Verifiable Impacts of Climate Change  (Part I)
  

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Are the poor terrorists?

Delivering Climate Security: International Security Responses to a Climate-Changed World

According to the above-titled report written for Britain’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), governments around the world have hugely underestimated the potential conflicts resulting from climate change. The highlights of the report are:

• If climate change is not slowed and critical environmental thresholds are exceeded, then it will become a primary driver of conflicts between and within states

• In the next decades, climate change will drive as significant a change in the strategic security environment as the end of the Cold War,” said Mabey.

• If uncontrolled, climate change will have security implications of similar magnitude to the World Wars, but which will last for centuries

• A failure to acknowledge and prepare for the worst case scenario is as dangerous in the case of climate change as it is for managing the risks of terrorism or nuclear weapons proliferation

• Unless achieving climate security is seen as a vital and existential national interest it will be too easy to delay action on the basis of avoiding immediate costs and perceived threats to economic competitiveness

Source

Would the world elite brand the poor and starving masses as “terrorists” in order to eliminate them?

Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.” According to a report by New York Sun.

News Reports:

• U.N. Security Council must act preemptively – on climate change – this global threat requires a war-room mentality

• Security risk from climate said underestimated
• Sam’s Club, Costco limit bulk rice purchases
• Sam’s Club, Costco Ration Rice Amid Hoarding Worries
  

Special Links:

• Future in the Making
• Index of Human Impact on Nature (HIoN) March 2008
• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Giga Trends
• World Problems: The Root Cause Matrix

Nuking Earth for Lifestyle

The Next Phase: Wars for Resources

The wars for resources are about the survival of the fattest. They are fought by the urge to secure more of other peoples’ resources: More water, more food, more fertile land and more energy to maintain unsustainable lifestyles.

The mushroom cloud from XX-11 IvyMike (Fusion Bomb). Public domain photo.
Source: United States Department of Energy

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Overshoot of Carrying Capacity

Lifestyle

Submitted by MIRVA, Committee Member, CASF

The committee members have identified Overshoot of Carrying Capacity (increased ecological footprint and “overpopulation” in “developed” countries) as a major cause of collapse. We also call for the world population to be stabilized at its current levels.

The world is in a drastic overshoot of carrying capacity in energy, material, food, clean water, and many other resources. The major cause of this overshoot is the unsustainable lifestyles of the populations in developed countries; it can hardly be blamed on the entire world population. Half the world population live on less than two dollars per day! See below for a comparison:

High income countries (GDP per capita – PPP)
Luxembourg: $87,400
Norway: $47,098
United States: $44,765
Finland: $37,957
Canada: 36,984

Less Developed Countries
Afghanistan: $700
Malawi: $600
Congo (Kinshasa): $700
Brundi: $600
Liberia: $19 (2007 estimate)

Now compare the energy consumption for the same countries:

High income countries (per capita energy delivered in watts)
Luxembourg: 14,416W
Norway: 14,670W
United States: 11,383W
Finland: 8,075W
Canada: 14,582W

Less Developed Countries:
Afghanistan: 21W
Malawi: 64W
Congo (Kinshasa): 56W
Brundi: 40W
Liberia: 11W

MIRVA, Committee Member, CASF

Related Links:
The Effective World Population
Flap Your Wings to Save the World

Are You a Dinosaur?

Top ten ways to know you are a dinosaur:

1. You and your partner, or other members of your species, have laid or intend to lay more than one or two eggs throughout your lifetime.

2. The overall numbers of your species are exponentially increasing.

3. Your consumption habits cause deforestation, habitat destruction and species extinction.

4. Have a larger ‘footprint’ than other animals.

5. Hoard too much stuff.

Tyrannosaurus: GNU Free Documentation License

6. Move around a lot.

7. Your dirt is getting bigger than the environment can absorb.

8. Commit cannibalism of same species eggs [aka, WAR.]

9. Instead of adapting to, you are destroying nature.

10. Using more energy and materials than the previous generations, therefore, you are regressing rather than evolving.

Related Links: Energy Dinosaurs

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