Seeking Protection from Evolutionary Changes

Britain [England and Wales] Votes to Become an ‘Island’

Brexit: David Cameron to resign after England and Wales voted to leave EU.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron will step down by October after 52 – 48 referendum to leave the European Union.

“The referendum turnout was 71.8% – with more than 30 million people voting – the highest turnout at a UK-wide vote since 1992,” said a report.

Spooked by the prospect of having to accept refugees from Syria, 52 percent of the voters in England and Wales opted to shy away from the vital challenges posed by the evolutionary process.

Scotland
Meanwhile, Scotland voted in favor of the UK staying in the EU by a majority of 62% to 38%, prompting its first minister to state that a fresh independence referendum was “highly likely.”

“Nicola Sturgeon said it was “democratically unacceptable” that Scotland faced the prospect of being taken out of the EU against its will.”

Related News Links

• Brexit: David Cameron to quit after UK votes to leave EU
• Brexit: Nicola Sturgeon says second Scottish independence vote ‘highly likely’

 

970 MMT of Soil Lost to Erosion Each Year in EU

600 million m³ of topsoil lost to water erosion annually

The greatest loss of soil in Europe is due to erosion by water compared to other erosion processes, such as wind, says the EU in-house science service (JRC).

“Soil erosion by water is one of the major threats to soils in the European Union, with a negative impact on ecosystem services, crop production, drinking water and carbon stocks.”

About 68.3% of total soil losses occurs in agricultural lands, while forests account for less than 1%, says the report.

Italy (8.46 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) has the highest average annual rates of soil erosion by water, followed by Slovenia (7.43 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹) and Austria (7.19 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹).

Selected Report Highlights

• The mean soil loss rate in European Union is estimated to 2.46 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ (agricultural, forests and semi-natural areas)
• Arable and sparse vegetation have the highest soil loss rates.
  • 12.7% of European arable lands have soil loss >5 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹
    
  • Four million hectares of EU croplands have unsustainable rates of soil loss
• Average annual rate of soil formation in Europe is about 1.4 Mt per hectare.
  • It takes 100 years to form 1 cm of new soil under natural temperate grasslands

Soil loss by water erosion in the European Union

Additional Notes and Discrepancies

Main statistical findings: Agricultural holdings

• Some 12.2 million farms across the EU-28 in 2010, worked 174.1 million hectares of land (the utilized agricultural area) or 40.0 % of the total land area of the EU-28.
  http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Agricultural_census_2010_-_main_results

• EU-28 total land area: 4,324,782 km² (432.5 million hectares)

• “The mean soil loss rate in the European Union’s erosion-prone lands (agricultural, forests and semi-natural areas) was found to be 2.46 t ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, resulting in a total soil loss of 970 Mt annually.”  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901115300654

 

 

 

Eurozone: Unemployment Rate Hits New High

DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,196 Days Left 

[December 2, 2012] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.

• SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,196 Days Left to the most Fateful Day in Human History
• Symbolic countdown to the ‘worst day’ in human history began on May 15, 2011 ...

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Global Disasters/ Significant Events

Jobless rate in the euro area rose to a new high of 11.7% in October

European Central Bank has warned the single currency zone would not emerge from its crisis until the second half of 2013 [wishful thinking?]

Unemployment rate in recessionary euro area climbed to 11.7% in October up from 10.4% last year.

[Eurozone, officially the euro area, is an economic and monetary union of 17 European Union (EU) member states using euro (€) as common currency.]

• October 2012 rise was the 14th consecutive monthly record since September 2011 when unemployment reached 10.3 percent.

• An additional 173,000 were out of work across the euro area, bringing the total to 18.7 million.

• Some 25.92 million people across the 27-state European Union single market were out of work in October, Eurostat said.

• The youth unemployment rate climbed to 23.9% in the euro area and to 23.4% in the EU single market compared with 21.2 % and 21.9 percent a year ago, leaving about one in four young Europeans out of work in October.

• Spain’s jobless rate rose to 26.2% from 25.8% the previous month (55.9 percent of under 25s were out of work), and Italy’s climbed to 11.1% from 10.8%.
• Greece’s unemployment rate jumped to 25.4% from 18.4% a year ago (at least 57 percent of under 25s were out of work), and Portugal’s 16.3% from 13.7%.
• France’s jobless rate was 10.7% and Ireland’s 14.7% in October.

Global Disasters: Links, Forecasts and Background

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Back to the Primordial Future
• The Fate of Energy Dinosaurs
• Mass Die-offs

• 2010 Disasters [Links to 2010 Disaster Calendar]
• Mega Disasters
• 2011 Disaster Calendar
• 2012 Disaster Calendar

GLOBAL WARNING

• WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
• WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
• Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started 
• United States: The First Phase of Collapse Has Begun