Life on Earth is Dying


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Robert J. Burrowes

Moreover, this mass extinction event is accelerating and is so comprehensive in its impact that the piecemeal measures being taken by the United Nations, international agencies and governments constitute a tokenism that is breathtaking in the extreme.

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Habitat denial by human encroachment and pollution is decimating many species.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/oct/27/worlds-wildlife-being-pushed-to-the-edge-by-humans-in-pictures

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/wildlife/World_Wildlife_Crime_Report_2016_final.pdf and ‘2016 Living Planet Report’ http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_living_planet_report_2016.pdf which includes these words: ‘The main statistic from the report … shows a 58% decline between 1970 and 2012. This means that, on average, animal populations are roughly half the size they were 42 years ago.’

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55724#.WEdCk1yYrIV

You just have to be an ‘ordinary’ person who pays your military taxes and consumes more than your share of world resources while participating without challenge in the global system of violence and exploitation managed by the global elite.

http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2016/11/24/whats-happening-arctic-astonishing/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/

http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=27090&ArticleID=36316&l=en

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Living in Indonesia, one of the most corporatized and politically corrupt nations in Asia, Orangutans are among the most endangered species on the planet. Meantime, Western consumers remain blissfully unaware of their own part in this tragedy.

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2988403/iraqs_oil_inferno_government_inaction_in_the_face_of_ecoterrorism.html or the website of the Toxic Remnants of War Project. http://www.toxicremnantsofwar.info/ But every single aspect of military spending is ultimately used to destroy. It has no other function.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55691#.WETNflyYrIV

Rhinos and elephants are also two of the great mammal species in the extreme danger zone. They could both be extinct in a couple of decades.

Rhinos and elephants are also two of the great mammal species in the extreme danger zone. They could both be extinct in a couple of decades. Image: Mother and baby rhino.

And do you know what drives this destruction of land and water habitats? Your demand for consumer products, all of which are produced by using land and water habitats, and the resources derived from them, often far from where you live. The most basic products, such as food and clothing, are produced on agricultural land, sometimes created by destroying rainforests, or taken from the ocean (where overfishing has savagely depleted global fish stocks). But in using these resources, we have ignored the needs of the land, oceans and the waterways for adequate regenerative inputs and recovery time.

We also participate, almost invariably without question or challenge, in the inequitable distribution of resources that compels some impoverished people to take desperate measures to survive through such means as farming marginal land or killing endangered wildlife.

Baby snow leopard: also very much teetering on the edge.

Baby snow leopard: also very much teetering on the edge.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1402/S00056/the-global-elite-is-insane.htm

If you want action on the greatest challenge human beings have ever faced – to avert our own extinction by learning to live in harmony with our biosphere and equity with our fellow humans – then I encourage you to take personal responsibility.

If you do, you need to act. At the simplest level, you can make some difficult but valuable personal choices. Like becoming a vegan or vegetarian, buying/growing organic/biodynamic food, and resolutely refusing to use any form of poison or to drive a car or take an airline flight.

http://tinyurl.com/flametree You might also consider signing the online pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ http://thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com which obviously includes nonviolence towards our fellow species.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/222631/the-delusion-i-am-not-responsible.html For a fuller explanation, see ‘Why Violence?’ http://tinyurl.com/whyviolence and ‘Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice’. http://anitamckone.wordpress.com/articles-2/fearless-and-fearful-psychology/ It isn’t true but few people feel powerful enough to make a difference.

And every time you decide to do nothing and to leave it to someone else, you demonstrate why no-one else should do anything either.

Extinction beckons. What will you do?

ABOVE IMAGE: Ignorance, greed and human stupidity wiped out the magnificent Tasmanian tiger.

 

 

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Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of 'Why Violence?' http://tinyurl.com/whyviolence His email address is flametree@riseup.net and his website is at http://robertjburrowes.wordpress.com

 

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