Free-Fall – Final Name –  The Sixth  (Anthropocene) Extinction

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A brand new period of environmental patterns on planet earth is unfolding. Exhausting to disclaim.

It’s not coming or going to occur. It’s right here and it’s taking place. We’re effectively into it. All life on the planet is being affected now. There aren’t any protected havens . . . no unsullied habitats. There’s solely truth and fiction.

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 The consolation of deferring new mandates for behavioral change is not accessible. That ship has lengthy since sailed. The environmental steadiness that supplied sustainable life has been unbalanced and continues to destabilize in accelerating free – fall. The planet’s ecosystem can not take up the cumulative results of harmful human exercise with out unraveling in obvious chaos because it in the end seeks a brand new steadiness.

Details:

• Shrinking Biodiversity – It’s estimated that animal populations shrank 70% over the previous 50 years.

“The message is obvious and the lights are flashing purple,” stated WWF Worldwide Director Common Marco Lambertini. In keeping with the United Nations latest local weather report, as much as a million species are threatened with extinction, many inside many years.

• Ocean Acidification – Like a sponge, oceans are absorbing rising quantities of CO2 from the ambiance. Concentrations are actually the very best up to now 800,000 years, and the present charge of enhance is probably going unprecedented in historical past. Mixed with an awesome  quantity of trash and chemical air pollution, a sea change which threatens the way forward for all marine life and, in flip, meals safety, livelihoods and native to world economies is underway and accelerating quickly.

• Deforestation and Destruction of Pure   Habitats – Over the last decade since 2010, the UN FAO estimate that 10 million hectares of forest had been reduce down annually, (roughly  the world of 14 million soccer fields).

As much as 28,000 species can go extinct within the subsequent quarter century as a result of deforestation.

By the 12 months 2030, we would solely have 10% of Rainforests left and it may possibly all disappear quickly.

Banks equivalent to JPMorgan, HSBC, and Financial institution of America financed $119 billion to Firms linked to deforestation. There’s a obtrusive lack of monitoring and imposing mechanisms within the monetary sector, permitting widespread land degradation to persist. 

• Rising Sea Ranges – The traits are worrisome. Virtually all projections primarily based on pc simulations and fashions  to undertaking ice soften charges have been shattered by unanticipated acceleration because of the interaction of unknown / unexpected variables. Efforts to sluggish local weather change gained’t do a lot to postpone it given the inertia of ocean warming and ice soften.

• No Pause or Reset Button – Regardless of all warnings, scientific experiences and worldwide agreements, the human actions inflicting environmental destabilization and consequently local weather change haven’t stopped and even slowed down. Actually, they’ve accelerated . . . ramped as much as new ranges.

•  Guarantees, Commitments, Pledges –  by world leadershave confirmed to be meaningless and empty.  Politicians don’t name the photographs. They operate to easy the trail for the actual shot callers . . . industrial giants that finance and principally personal them. How is that this for a surprising instance . . . the Cop28 local weather talks later this 12 months will probably be chaired by the pinnacle of the United Emirates state – owned oil firm.

• A Optimistic Alternative Exists – From a distance, it could appear as if the whole human inhabitants, has subconsciously acted to create an surroundings to drive its personal final evolutionary shift. The human herd has fairly swiftly put into movement extreme, adversarial environmental adjustments which, in flip, may function the springboard to its personal speedy, adaptive change . . . with a view to survive a  catastrophe of its personal making. It has, in a way, engineered the circumstances essential to journey its personal awakening, evolution and emergence as a viable species.

This angle could be very interesting. It implies that, even at its worst moments, human historical past has unfolded with common intelligence guiding it at some subliminal stage. If we undertake a place that there aren’t any coincidences, no probability outcomes, that the evolution of the universe, in all of its facets is guided by an clever power, then it’s, after all, true that we’re right here, the place we are actually, by design.

Continuing from this assumption, mustn’t depart us smug or assured that we’ll be delivered. This viewpoint presents hope, nothing extra. The cube have been rolled however they’re nonetheless tumbling. The ultimate act has not  performed out . . . but.

Fiction:

We Can Repair It –  Maybe probably the most obtrusive fiction of all. There has at all times been a component of misguided confidence, even hubris within the notion that our superior intellects give us the flexibility to regulate pure occasions. The assumption that our science and expertise, that are clearly able to phenomenal destruction, are equally able to restoring nature to a state of well being is fiction bordering on delusion.

We can not :

• Re – Freeze the polar ice caps.
• Resurrect casually annihilated pure habitats and species which took tens of millions of years to evolve.
• Reset / rebalance the infinite, linked elements and forces that decide planetary local weather.
• Create fashions and simulations which precisely undertaking time frames for pure processes to happen, e.g. soften charges of polar ice, rising ocean ranges, extinction of species, and many others. Laptop modeling, can solely embody a finite, restricted variety of variables. Environmental change includes an infinite variety of dynamically linked variables that are largely unknowable.

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Joseph Carlisi – Biography     

Born and raised in New York Metropolis, he earned BA and MA levels in Philosophy at Hunter School of the Metropolis College of New York after which continued his graduate research in Philosophy and Synthetic Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Know-how working below the mentorship of Marvin Minsky. Joseph labored as a component time content material and replica editor for Harvard College Press (science and medication) whereas attending M.I.T.     

After ten years as a college lecturer, researcher and administrator, he began and managed an promoting / public relations agency in San Diego, CA that dealt with a variety of business accounts. On the educational aspect, he revealed a collection of seven articles on animal habits for Harvard Journal and two books: “A Information to Private Energy” and most not too long ago “Enjoying God on the Eve of Extinction”.

Joseph Carlisi creates oil on canvas work that may be described as vivid, surreal and sudden. His work have been exhibited and bought in: Honolulu, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York Metropolis, Miami, Tokyo, Yokohama, Amsterdam, Berlin and Salvador Brazil.

Joe’s artwork is accessible for buy.

Contact him at carlisijoseph@yahoo.com.

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