The 6 ith extinction

[Janic]

They are not murdered unnecessarily ....

The fact of saying murdered needlessly concerns first of all our regions where it is possible to eat enough without a jug.

They are used for food and even if you have chosen not to eat them anymore, this is far from being the case for the more than 6 billion inhabitants of this planet ...

This is partly true, but we must first seek to know the reasons which are, generally, only cultural, with arguments which do not correspond to any biological or anatomical reality.
Thus the figures, which are not of VG origin, show that the consumption of animal products, all taken together, increases with the standard of living of societies, not according to physiological needs. However, it has been calculated that almost 70% of cultivated agricultural areas are used for animal feed. Thus the breeding and cultivation of soybeans for animal nutrition are responsible for 80% of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest (the rest being mainly the cutting of wood for industrial use)
https://www.viande.info/schemas

And considering the number of these farm animals present on the planet because of their intensive breeding to transform them into steak ... Not too much to worry about their possible disappearance ...

not for them! the raid on the forests makes disappear many forms of life necessary for the balance of the biotope and leads to desertify whole regions by upsetting the microclimates with all its consequences.
So total disappearance of farm animals (not the others!), Probably not, but the little game of monopolizing land for the use of nutrition from industrial farming (which can only be the solution to come to feed a growing population fast) can not last indefinitely, at some point it will crack and people will not readily accept to see the steak decrease then almost disappear from their plate. (it is easy to make a simple rule of three!) Clearly, more the world population will increase and the greater the demand, the more land will be used to feed animals to the detriment of humans until a "balance" will be, once again, for the benefit of the wealthy on this earth, the others becoming almost vegetarian BY OBLIGATION. Civilization is beautiful!

[Macro]

Clearly, the more the world population increases and the greater the demand, the more land will be used to feed animals to the detriment of humans until a "balance" which will be, once again, for the benefit of the wealthy on this earth, the others becoming almost vegetarian BY OBLIGATION. Civilization is beautiful!

Ben voila ... The solution is well not to increase the world population any more .... And that the haves including you and I are part ... Give up their privilege .... Because that goes much further than the food ... The simple fact that we are there to politically sterilize (because neither you, nor me, nor alas the whole band that we are here will be able to change anything ....) makes us the wealthy of this world ... We little Europeans ... Whether we are carni, omni, or herbi vores .... Sitting in front of our computer screens made by chti ne children in China arrived in our lounges with large reinforcement of super container ships, which eat electricity from 80% fossil resources ....

A question about cooking bindweed? Because in my garden despite the hay mat and the 15cm layer of BRF ... There is only that growing ... On the other hand there is not much to eat on it ... But the rat taupier ca ca mange ... Then there will be the cats of the neighbors ...

[moinsdewatt]

Australian koalas still and always threatened

the 24.05.2017

Koalas are less and less numerous in Australia, warns WWF. In some regions, their number has decreased by almost 80%. The cause: deforestation, global warming and the mining industry.

Koalas are not yet endangered, but almost. On May 19, 2017, Australia's Endangered Animals Day, WWF Australia released a report providing an update on the koala situation in Australia. Written by Dr Christine Adams-Hosking, University of Queensland, it concludes that "old threats to koalas persist, while new ones emerge, such as climate change and mining".

Koalas have lived in Australia for at least 25 million years, long before humans appeared. Many species of the koala family, the Phascolarctidae, then lived on the continent. But today there is only one left, the Phascolarctos cinereus, which populates the eucalyptus forests of Australia. The ancestral species is only present in Australia, and on a few neighboring islands. Its gradual disappearance from the Australian continent is therefore particularly alarming, as it would mean the end of the species.

A species vulnerable to deforestation

"Since European colonization, koala populations have come under a lot of pressure from the loss of their natural habitat, due to urban development and agriculture," says Dr Adams-Hosking. Killed for their fur until the 1930s, koalas have more recently been affected by climate change and increasing urbanization. Today, the species is classified as "vulnerable

In Queensland, Australia's second largest region, the number of koalas has halved in 2-15 years. In some places, such as the Koala Coast near Brisbane, the figure can go up to 20% (from 80 to 1996).
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https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/animaux ... lie_113185

[Janic]

Ben voila ... The solution is well not to increase the world population any more .... And that the haves including you and I are part ... Give up their privilege .... Because that goes much further than the food ... The simple fact that we are there to politically sterilize (because neither you, nor me, nor alas the whole band that we are here will be able to change anything ....) makes us the wealthy of this world ... We little Europeans ... Whether we are carni, omni, or herbi vores .... Sitting in front of our computer screens made by chti ne children in China arrived in our lounges with large reinforcement of super container ships, which eat electricity from 80% fossil resources ....

You are largely right! It is certain that it is our lifestyles that will suffer the most. When the change is above all mental, and if no one contributes to the building (however small it is) it is certain that nothing will be rebuilt.
So let's continue to pollute without worry, let the sick die, finish the old people and other radical solutions?

But the mole rat it can be eaten ... Then there will be the cats of the neighbors ...

And after eating cats, it's an invasion of insured rats and why not a good little plague from behind the fagots? It would reduce the wealthy population in question!

[Ahmed]

Do you eat rats?

[Macro]

Do you eat rats?

It's just a story of culture ....

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/12 ... agout.html

[Janic]

"In recent years, the rat population has indeed exploded in the country due to the elimination of snakes and cats, considered their "natural enemies". indeed it is a question of culture! Rat traps kill adults but allow the young to multiply. It reminds of "our" hunters who must replace the usual predators of the faunas which develop in excess and which they have slaughtered! The human world is crazy !!!
And in addition a little superstition at the end "This is the dish that we must have at family celebrations, weddings or at the end of the year. People think that consuming it helps to get rid of bad luck." as for persuading our fellow citizens to consume it is another twist!

[moinsdewatt]

The sixth mass extinction of animals is accelerating

In a very alarming study, researchers conclude that vertebrate species are declining massively on Earth, both in number of animals and in extent.

THE WORLD | 10.07.2017


This is what they call "biological annihilation". In a very alarming study, published Monday July 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), American and Mexican researchers conclude that vertebrate species are declining massively on Earth, both in number of animals and in extent. A "defaunation" with "catastrophic" consequences for ecosystems and major ecological, economic and social impacts.

The three authors, Gerardo Ceballos (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford) are no strangers to the topic of biodiversity loss. In June 2015, the first two had already published another study in the journal Science Advances, which showed that the Earth's fauna was already undergoing its sixth mass extinction. They had calculated that the disappearances of species have multiplied by 100 since 1900, a rate without equivalent since the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.


Disappearance of populations

This time, the researchers sought to quantify the decline no longer in the number of species but in the populations, that is to say groups of animals on a territory. "The emphasis on species extinction can give the impression that terrestrial biodiversity is not dramatically and immediately threatened, but that it is just slowly entering a major erosion episode that we can fight later, "explain the authors.

This approach has several shortcomings in their eyes: public opinion struggles to measure the gravity of the phenomenon at work (two species disappear each year, which seems low, especially when the latter are little known or not widespread). And it does not correctly assess the current problem. The most common species (whose populations are widely present) record massive declines in their numbers, without being already threatened. "However, the disappearance of populations is a prelude to that of species, warn scientists. A detailed analysis of the decline in animal numbers makes the problem much clearer and more worrying. "

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http://www.lemonde.fr/biodiversite/arti ... 52692.html

[Christophe]

See as well: climate-change-co2 / off-of-mass-anthropogenic-c-is-gone-my-dick-t12253.html

[izentrop]

Global warming: the planet will be uninhabitable much sooner than we think http://www.slate.fr/story/148380/planet ... itable-tot

I don't want to be the apocalypse announcers, but the worst is not that far away

A region in northern Siberia has been affected for several weeks by an anthrax epidemic. The bacteria, previously contained in permafrost (frozen soil), was released during the melting of the ice, aggravated by global warming, killing a child and at least 2.300 reindeer. Jean-Michel Claverie, from the Mediterranean Microbiology Institute, has long been alerting to the dangers caused by the thawing of permafrost. http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contributio ... -pire.html