The 6 ith extinction

[sen-no-sen]

the worst extinction from my point of view is the extinction of human intelligence ............

We must not confuse intelligence with wisdom, and it is on this last point that humanity is fishing ... It is because of an uninterrupted deployment of intelligence that we have arrived there.
Without wisdom intelligence leads only to chaos.
It must be understood that intelligence is a force.Intelligence aims to maximize future action capabilities.
In the same way that a muscle can be strengthened only by repeated efforts, Intelligence can only develop through confrontation with a multitude of issues.
So and contrary to what our logic (= intelligence) makes us believe,intelligence does not solve problems *, since we are aim is to renew constantly new.Condition sinequanone to his survival.
When one has grasped that the dominant intelligence at the moment was of a technological nature, it is easy to understand that this can only lead to a myriad of cascading problems that will have to be answered inexorably by other technological solutions. being a saturation of the world.
Outside it is the initiation of this saturation which is at the origin of the 6th extinction.

lions or elephants, is it so important if they disappeared?

The biosphere must be understood as a living totality, all forms of life must be respected, none of them would be less important to others.
The more humanity considers itself as a separate entity from others, the more it will suffer.


* This does not mean that we can not solve a problem, but that the problem once solved causes a modification of our environment to which we must readjust ... by the solution to new problems!

[Janic]

The biosphere must be understood as a living totality, all forms of life must be respected, none of them would be less important to others.
The more humanity considers itself as a separate entity from others, the more it will suffer.

out! the biosphere is like a spider web where all the threads are connected to each other.

[moinsdewatt]

According to experts, koalas are now "functionally extinct", and here's what it means

Stéphanie Schmidt 13 May 2019

The Australian Koala Foundation reports today that "there are no more 80'000 koalas in Australia", which would make this species "functionally extinct". Explanations.

Although this number estimated by the Australian Koala Foundation is considerably lower than the most recent academic estimates, there is no doubt that koala populations around the world are experiencing a sharp decline. Although it is difficult to estimate how many koalas still exist in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, one thing is certain: these animals are extremely vulnerable threats, including deforestation, disease and the effects of climate change.

Indeed, once a population of koalas falls below a certain critical point, it can no longer produce a next generation, thus causing its disappearance.



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https://trustmyscience.com/koalas-fonct ... t-eteints/

[Leo Maximus]

200 cetaceans have been killed in the Faroe Islands since the beginning of the year 2019:

https://www.ilgiornaledeimarinai.it/40- ... -faer-oer/ (in Italian, 11 may 2019).

"...This is the third massacre in 2019 after the New Year's massacre and the end of April massacre. To date, more 200 pilot whales and other small cetaceans, such as dolphins, have been killed...."

Feroe Islands 2019.jpg (43.7 KIO) Viewed 4628 times

https://tendrejeudi.com/massacres-des-b ... rindadrap/
https://www.seaandhuman.org/articles/re ... les-feroe/

The Faroe Islands is an archipelago of Denmark, it is in Europe ...

[Janic]

and how many oxen, cows, calves, rabbits, chickens, pheasants, sheep, etc ... that do not shed a tear for those who cry on this holocaust there as if it were becoming more important than the rest, like a tree hiding the forest!

[Ahmed]

... society of the spectacle obliges!

[moinsdewatt]

Japan: first whaling for commercial purposes since 31

AFP • 01 / 07 / 2019

Japanese vessels harpooned two whales on Monday in Japanese waters, ushering in the resumption of commercial whaling for more than three decades.

The return of the whalers to sea in order to kill cetaceans for consumption stems from the government's decision six months ago to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and thus avoid a moratorium.

Two Minke whales were caught by boats leaving early in the port of Kushiro (North Island of Hokkaido) after a ceremony during which several elected officials claimed the legitimacy of this tradition.

At least one of the boats returned in the late afternoon and his cargo was unloaded on a truck in order to win the cut, found AFP journalists.
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The factory ship Nisshin Maru, flagship of the Japanese whaling fleet, and several other boats also left the port of Shimonoseki (southwest), where a huge whale statue sits.

"We believe that whales are marine resources like fish and that they are usable on the basis of scientific criteria," an official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries told AFP.

"We set quotas so as not to harm the species," he said. The maximum by December is set at 227 catches.


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https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec ... 286c2e1275

[moinsdewatt]

Two Minke whales were caught by boats leaving at the beginning of the day of the port of Kushiro (on the northern island of Hokkaido) after a ceremony during which several elected officials claimed the legitimacy of this tradition.

At least one of the boats returned in the late afternoon and his cargo was unloaded in a truck in order to win the cut, found AFP journalists.

https://www.boursorama.com/actualite-ec ... 286c2e1275

[moinsdewatt]

Biodiversity: 7.000 more species are threatened with extinction, warns IUCN

July 19, 2019

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just updated its "Red List". From animals of great depths to primates, from the tree to the mushroom, from the largest to the smallest, the activities of Man are still as menacing for their survival, leading us to the sixth mass extinction.

Updating this list, which lists more than 100.000 species - 105.732 exactly - today numbers 28.338 at risk of extinction, and this is 7.000 more than in the latest version. In a statement released on Thursday, Grethel Aguilar, IUCN's Director General, expressed her concern that "this update clearly shows how humans are overexploiting wild fauna and flora around the world. We must realize that conserving the diversity of nature is in our interest, "she says.

For IUCN's Jane Smart, this update of the Red List confirms the findings of the recent IBPES report, the UN Expert Group on Biodiversity: "Nature is declining at unprecedented speed in human history, "she adds. This report, presented in May, revealed that one million species are threatened with extinction because of human activities.

Silent decline in not so sweet waters

Seven species of primates are on the verge of extinction, including six in West Africa, victims of deforestation and hunted for their meat, the statement said. The Roloway Cercopithecus, which lives in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, has gone from "endangered" to "critically endangered", the category just before extinction in the wild.

Freshwater fish are experiencing a "silent decline", warns IUCN, which gives an example of Japan and Mexico, where, according to the NGO, respectively more than half and more than a third of fish freshwater are threatened with extinction.

In France, one in five species is threatened because of global warming and human activities. About 500 species of abyssal fish join the Red List, as well as the mollusk Chrysomallon squamiferum, which lives at depths up to 2.900 meters in the Indian Ocean. Trees and mushrooms are also threatened.

https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete ... icn-76925/

[jean.caissepas]

in 1965, when Michel Simon predicted the sixth extinction ...

https://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/ ... xtinction/

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