Capitalism is Creating the Sixth Mass Extinction Event...

[5fish]

You can call it the Climate Change or Holocene Extinction but capitalism is the driving force behind this Sixth extinction event. The profit motive and the maximizing of shareholder wealth are driving capitalism and man to poison and destroy his only home, the earth. We are in the man-made sixth mass extinction event for greed...

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

Holocene extinction - Wikipedia

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As such, after the "Big Five" mass extinctions, the Holocene extinction event has also been referred to as the sixth mass extinction or sixth extinction;[19][20][21] given the recent recognition of the Capitanian mass extinction, the term seventh mass extinction has also been proposed for the Holocene extinction event.[22][23]

 

[5fish]

For everyone in the world to live like Americans, it would take five earths... The link does it for every nation... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer check out Germany...

How many Earths? How many countries? - Earth Overshoot Day

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

 

[rittmeister]

For everyone in the world to live like Americans, it would take five earths... The link does it for every nation... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer check out Germany...

How many Earths? How many countries? - Earth Overshoot Day

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

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those two stats show that your place is anything but overcrouded

 

[5fish]

Here is a look at Earth's carrying capacity... I the past I have heard the number the earth could support 3 billion people living like Americans but this article says 2 billion...

https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/how-many-people-can-earth-actually-support

But whether we have 500 million people or one trillion, we still have only one planet, which has a finite level of resources. Considering our population will continue to rise for some time, how do we accommodate everyone? The answer comes back to resource consumption. People around the world consume resources differently and unevenly. An average middle-class American consumes 3.3 times the subsistence level of food and almost 250 times the subsistence level of clean water. So if everyone on Earth lived like a middle class American, then the planet might have a carrying capacity of around 2 billion. However, if people only consumed what they actually needed, then the Earth could potentially support a much higher figure.

 

[5fish]

those two stats show that your place is anything but overcrouded

The question is not about how many people but the resources to support them. Everyone wants to turn it into a Malthusianism question but it is a resource allocation question... Populations are cashing in high-income nations...

Malthusianism - Wikipedia

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Malthusianism is the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

 

[5fish]

This is an older article but it thought provoking...

Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it | George Monbiot

The economic system is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth. It is time to design a new one, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

In the New York Times on Sunday, the Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz sought to distinguish between good capitalism, which he called “wealth creation”, and bad capitalism, which he called “wealth grabbing” (extracting rent). I understand his distinction. But from the environmental point of view, wealth creation is wealth grabbing. Economic growth, intrinsically linked to the increasing use of material resources, means seizing natural wealth from both living systems and future generations.

To point to such problems is to invite a barrage of accusations, many of which are based on this premise: capitalism has rescued hundreds of millions of people from poverty – now you want to impoverish them again. It is true that capitalism, and the economic growth it drives, has radically improved the prosperity of vast numbers of people, while simultaneously destroying the prosperity of many others: those whose land, labour and resources were seized to fuel growth elsewhere. Much of the wealth of the rich nations was – and is – built on slavery and colonial expropriation.

 

[5fish]

What standard of living do we want for the world people?

On the Edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction: How Can We Prevent It?

Postponing action on biodiversity could be a death sentence for many species on the planet and costly for humankind. Here's what we can still do.

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu

According to the Swiss Re organisation’s estimates, more than half of the global GDP is dependent on high-functioning biodiversity and ecosystem services. At the same time, many world regions rely on ecosystems that filter water – these are mainly wetlands and forests that are very vulnerable to biodiversity loss. Another threat related to mass extinction is an increased frequency of pandemics.

 

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We would not be here except for

 

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[5fish]

This is not the sixth mass extinction event but the first mass extermination event in history... and capitalism and greed are the driving source...

This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It’s the First Extermination Event.

What we are witnessing is not a passive geological event but extermination by capitalism.

truthout.org

But the atrocity unfolding in the Amazon, and across the Earth, has no geological analogue — to call it the “sixth extinction event” is to make what is an active, organized eradication sound like some kind of passive accident. This is no asteroid or volcanic eruption or slow accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere due to cyanobacteria photosynthesis.

We are in the midst of the First Extermination Event, the process by which capital has pushed the Earth to the brink of the Necrocene, the age of the new necrotic death.

 

[5fish]

A Thought...

 

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Here is a thought in the end we are...

 

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What we call last of a specie? We call them Endling... It is a stark word...

Endling - Wikipedia

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An endling is the last known individual of a species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct. The word was coined in correspondence in the scientific journal Nature.

A remarkable youtube short...

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End of the Endling?

An End to Endlings: Marking 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Act (ESA) was signed into law on Dec. 28, 1973, one of a suite of environmental laws passed in the 1970s that today form the foundation of our country's conservation programs.

sanctuaries.noaa.gov

Endling - [endling]; noun; a living individual that is the last survivor of its species and whose death means the extinction of that species

Endling is a word of recent vintage, first proposed in a letter to the editors of Nature on April 4, 1996, in which the correspondents wrote: “There is a need for a word in taxonomy, and in medical genealogical, scientific, biological and other literature, that does not occur in the English or any other language. We need a word to designate the last person, animal or other species in his/her/its lineage.” Endling wasn't needed as a new word because humans haven't seen species go extinct in the last several hundred thousand years—there is evidence that our forebears marked, in different ways, the absence of species they knew had once been present—but because we have in the last centuries been able to pinpoint the individual who is an endling for a species.

 

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Animals during Covid was probably the last time they will have know peace...

 

[5fish]

There is a theory the the 1908 asteroid over Russia could have been a black hole...

On June 30,1908, a giant fireball exploded in Siberia’s remote Tunguska region, leveling trees for more than 20 miles around and causing atmospheric shock waves that were detected round the world. At the time, scientists thought that a giant meteorite had crashed into the earth. Later, when they failed to find a major crater or clearly identifiable meteorite fragments at the site, they began to question their earlier theory.

Many scientists have since attributed the phenomenon to a comet head that exploded in the air before hitting the earth. Others suggest that a stray clump of antimatter from elsewhere in the universe found its way to earth and completely annihilated itself and an equivalent amount of terrestrial matter, thus releasing an enormous blast of energy.

Now, in perhaps the most imaginative theory offered to date, University of Texas Physicists Albert A. Jackson IV and Michael P. Ryan Jr. have proposed that the 1908 explosion was caused by a “black hole” — a bizarre celestial object scientists believe exist in great numbers throughout the universe.

One of the implications of the theory of general relativity is that when giant stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, they collapse so suddenly under their own tremendous gravity that their remnants are compressed into a sphere only about two miles or so across and weighing trillions of tons per cu. in. The gravitational field of the sphere is so intense that no light can escape from it—thus the name “black hole.”

 

[5fish]

Here an AI take on the Black Hole.... The exit point would most likely have been in the ocean... If direct opposite it would have been Chile... It all depends the angle the black hole entered the earth...

If a black hole had traveled through Earth in 1908, it would have caused catastrophic damage, potentially ripping through the planet and leaving a devastating trail of destruction, though most scientists believe the "Tunguska Event" of that year was likely caused by an asteroid or comet grazing the Earth's atmosphere, not a black hole; the black hole theory is considered highly unlikely due to a lack of evidence and the extreme nature of such an event.

Key points about a black hole passing through Earth:

No crater:
Unlike a typical asteroid impact, a black hole passing through Earth would likely not leave a visible crater because it would not physically collide with the planet's material, instead, pulling matter into itself as it passes through.

Massive disruption:
The gravitational pull of a black hole would cause immense disruption to the Earth's structure, tearing apart the planet's interior and potentially causing massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis.

Exit point devastation:
As the black hole exited the Earth on the other side, it would again cause immense destruction, potentially creating a large plume of material ejected into space.

No evidence for this theory:
While some scientists once proposed a black hole as a possible cause for the Tunguska event, the lack of observed evidence at the exit point and the more likely explanation of an asteroid or comet make this theory highly