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#extinction

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Dom Arbuthnott

@sanderturnhout Wonderful article, thank you, if lost a bit in my phone translation, but the last sentence says it all: "In this way, the portraits of the dodos show that nature restoration is not only about saving a species, but rather about restoring the relationship between people and nature. And that is urgently needed to prevent us from following the path of the dodo ourselves." #extinction #habitatloss #climatechange #pollution #nature

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flo

"Europe is irrelevant.
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We, humanity, our species, is proving on a daily basis that we are stupid astronauts in a spaceship that we are poisoning the air of.
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We are absolutely failing the test of arresting [addressing?], the arresting the process we poison the air we breath, the clock is counting down our demise, our extinction, and we are really doing absolutely nothing about it, as a species facing oblivion."

"Yanis Varoufakis EXPOSED How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity"

yewtu.be/watch?v=wBPX2fHJAMA

(youtu.be/wBPX2fHJAMA)

cc @ExtinctionR

#YanisVaroufakis #TechnoFeudalism #Broligarchy #Humanity #Extinction #Oblivion

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Will Tuladhar-Douglas

The massive glacial flow in Blatten is a good metaphor, I guess.

"We had been aware of cracks, of pressure; we knew it was serious enough to prepare, but no one expected *this*. Yet in retrospect we should have. Huh."

And someone has to find a new shelter someplace "safer", and look after the kids, and make food on a temporary stove, and deal with paperwork.

And in a superdiverse alpine landscape, a thousand ledges and outcrops and gullies with gentians and mosses and evanescent bulbs...are gone.

But the company that conveniently sold and delivered that stove, and the company that makes diesel diggers rooting through the rubble, and the company that sold cloud computing services to the geological survey department, and the tourist airlines worried about a drop in revenue, and the insurance brokers...they adjust their business practices to deal with any temporary effect on future economic growth and then just market all the harder.

"In retrospect we should have. Huh."

सर्वं दु:खम्। सर्वमनित्यम् । सर्वमनात्मकम् ।

#mountains#extinction#ecology
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MikeF

Sorry folks, I'm reposting... This originally seemed to have gotten appended to someone else's thread on a different topic.

Some nesting and baby shorebirds at Nickerson Beach Park, in Nassau Co., NY. Shorebirds figure prominently among the 3 billion birds that have disappeared in the past 50 years, according to the Audubon Society. This is largely due to habitat loss and degradation, climate change, pollution and introduced predators. To be blunt, Capitalism with its inherent drive for growth is anathema to biodiversity and all life on our planet.

American Oystercatcher female and one of two chicks face each other on a sandy beach. These are large shorebirds, black or dark brown and white, with long stout orange bills and yellow eyes. The downy chick is brown above and light below. Chicks are semi-precocial, able to move about freely after hatching, but still reliant on parents for food.
Female American Oystercatcher standing over her three eggs in their nest, a shallow depression in the sand. Both males and females incubate the eggs, care for the young and teach the young to forage. Population status is considered stable, overall.
Adult Piping Plover in a nesting colony foraging on a sandy beach among low dune vegetation. These small plovers are gray-black above and on the crown of its head with a single white-bounded black collar ring and a black band across the forehead, and a light-colored underside. Bill is black-tipped red. Superbly camouflaged on a sand beach.
One of a pair of Piping Plover chicks which were actively scurrying about in the low dunes and dune grass, while mom remained still. Described as "cotton balls with tooth-picks," these downy chicks are brown with black streaks above and buffy below. Very hard to see against the sand and vegetation. These are a precocial species, actively foraging under mom's watchful gaze shortly after hatching. This species is considered endangered.
#birds#birding#birdphotography
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