Showing posts with label mass extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mass extinction. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Cape Cod: Mega Red Tide 2018 (edit)

I worry for the sake of the whales. They come and feed in the murky water off of Cape Cod for now. Then, they migrate to the Caribbean where were the water is much clearer due to lack of food.

I worry about red tides, and pollution in Cape Cod’s murky waters, sometimes called dark water. It hasn’t been killing whales yet, but can we imagine a scenario where creature death pollution creates such murky waters that all the whales die, and the rest of parts of the ocean. It is of no doubt that global climate change is probably a problem, as well as shellfishing. IMHO we need to stop eating shellfish. It is filtering the nastiness out, eating it.

If nastiness gets too bad, even clam beds become polluted ~ “red tide," but everybody has heard of that.

Are we ready for:

RED Ocean?

Mass cataclysmic death of most ocean life.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

To Introduce Wild Animals for Ecologic Healing

 


It is no secret that humans have possibly stressed the environment beyond repair.
We are currently in the middle of a mass extinction because of human misdeeds.
I presuppose that it is a fallacy to believe that humans can never help ecosystems.  The suggested fallacy many believe, heaven forfend, is that it is human activity by nature makes us in a way that we humans must permanently destroy more than we are able to mend due to human iniquities.  It is time for humanity to step up and take more effort to do good by nature because too often we wait, which causes dreaded population bottlenecks for species, making recovery even harder because it diminishes necessary antifragile genetic variability to a population.


If we reach out, we should not fear that animals will become dependent on our support.  We as humans should think of helping animals succeed as a job, and in addition humans should demand pay for such work, as wild animal breeders, such that wild animal breeding could be both a job creator and a human niche.
 
While not optimal, I believe that it could still be good to help both suffering species and non-endangered species.  Too often humans have waited to the extent that our activity creates a population bottleneck.  Rather, I suggest that we breed animals, especially harmless animals, with the hope of having them enter their natural niche out of captivity.


I even suggest that with the help of scientific research, in order to fight the toll of invasive species, possibly we could also safely introduce more invasive species, except the new invasive species, would be less troublesome, as they would be natural predators functioning to reduce the total damage done to indigenous species.   

In the future, we may end up having to help species in a multifaceted battlefront, including efforts to reduce toxic carbon emissions.  This is job #1 for humanity today.  We need to step up to the plate and assume a role of encouraging bio-friendly activities that heal the world, rather than giving up on ideals.