PollinatorsJul 2, 2025
July 2, 2025. Crew sighted an active and faded monarch butterfly. It is a single data point that the Midwest monarch ecosystem survives in Southern Minnesota. The monarch found milkweed plants. She flew the egg laying flights. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #MonarchButterfly, #minnesota, #sixthgreatextinction
DoomsdaysCWNov 21, 2024

'The sixth great #extinction is happening', conservation expert, #JaneGoodall, warns

by Victoria Gill
November 16, 2024

"With her signature shawl draped over her shoulders and silver hair pulled back from her face, Jane Goodall exudes serenity - even over our slightly blurry video call.

"In a Vienna hotel room, a press team and a small group of filmmakers, who are documenting her latest speaking tour, fuss around her.

"The famous primatologist and conservationist settles into a high-backed chair that dwarfs her slender frame.

"On my screen I can see that behind her, on a shelf, is her toy monkey, Mr H.

"The toy was given to her nearly 30 years ago by a friend and has travelled the world with her. Dr Goodall is now 90 years of age, and she and Mr H are still travelling.

"'I am a little bit exhausted,' she admits. 'I’ve come here from Paris. And after here I go to Berlin, then Geneva. I’m on this tour talking about the danger to the environment and some of the remedies,' she says.

‘The sixth great extinction is happening now’

"One of the remedies she wants to talk about today is a tree-planting and habitat restoration mission that her eponymous foundation and non-profit technology company, Ecosia, are carrying out in Uganda. Over the past five years, with the help of local communities and smallholder farmers, the organisations have planted nearly two million trees.

"'We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,' Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. 'The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.'"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93qvqx5y01o?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#SixthGreatExtinction #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #DefendTheSacred

'The sixth great extinction is happening', warns climate expert

Conservationist Jane Goodall on the urgent need to turn the tide on climate change and nature loss.

Just Tom... 🐁Oct 15, 2024
As wildlife numbers globally fall precipitously, I wonder whether humans and the rest of the worlds ecosystems can coexist at all. #SixthGreatExtinction https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-coming-collision-between-whales-and-tankers-on-bcs-coast/
The Coming Collision Between Whales and Tankers on British Columbia’s Coast | Hakai Magazine

Decades after they were hunted to local extinction, fin whales are recovering in the Kitimat fjord system—only to be threatened by a booming LNG industry.

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15-15-15 - Rss BotSep 11, 2023
Ecological Transitions and Energy Transitions https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2023/09/11/ecological-transitions-and-energy-transitions/ #nicholasGeorgescu-Roegen #dependenceonfossilfuels #electricitygeneration #industrialagriculture #BarefootEcosocialism #crisisofcivilization #ecologicaltransition #runawayclimatechange #SixthGreatExtinction #high-techrenewables #industrialsocieties #carbontunnelvision #civilizationaltrap #ViableTechnologies #Carpinteroparadox #industrialheating #ecosocialcrisis
Ecological Transitions and Energy Transitions

[Jorge Riechmann] Merely adding (electricity generation capacity with renewables) is not making any transition. It is also necessary to relinquish, to do without, to know how to let go.

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Show thread504BatteryDrJan 8, 2023

@ZeroOne

Any AI developed with "human values" would be a disaster when taking into account that human values for hundreds of thousands of years has been conquering, killing, selfishness, greed and subjugation of the weakest of us.

Humans are a failed species, always doing more harm than good to the planet they rely on to survive.

With a few hundred thousand more years, maybe we would have evolved beyond these barbaric traits, but alas, we won't have the chance now, as the planet we depend on is on life support, and beyond fixing.

#HomoColossus
#SixthGreatExtinction
#WeScrewedUpEverything
#EcologicalCollapse
#Reality

Just A GuyJan 3, 2023
I’d like to believe there will come a day - soon - when those of us in the U.S.finally realize we have more important things to worry about than what pettiness the selfish #assholes in the #Republican party are up to and convince the #mainstreammedia to shift their focus to things that really matter. But who am I kidding? Americans care more about our tabloid drama than we do the fate of our species.
#america #politics #sixthgreatextinction
Show thread504_drDec 27, 2022

@Irreverent_B

When you understand overpopulation from ecological standpoint, it becomes much clearer.

The planet evolved to thrive under the biodiversity that sustains it. Nothing survives without the whole being healthy.

Ppl now occupy a majority space on the planet relative to other species, either physically or thru their actions.
Less/less is available to other species.

It's physics - a finite planet has finite resources.

#SixthGreatExtinction
#Overpopulation
#Biodiversity

Patrick RizzoDec 19, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/climate/biodiversity-cop15-montreal-30x30.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #biodiversity #climate #climatechange #cop15 #extinction #sixthgreatextinction
COP15 Biodiversity Talks: Countries Sign On to “30x30” Conservation Plan

Roughly 190 nations, aiming to halt a dangerous decline in biodiversity, agreed to preserve 30 percent of the planet’s land and seas. The United States is not officially a participant.