eastbay wrote:Subjectivist wrote:The real legacy of humanity will be all the legacy of extinct species we are taking out of the ecosystem every day from no into the future.
The ongoing destruction of the rainforests has me all jacked up lately ... and, much like with the peak oil catastrophe, there are times I feel like I'm the only one all jacked up about the horrific final clearcutting.
There are times you feel this way, especially when you realize that the majority of the human population now lives in urban areas with only the most abstract relationships with natural ecosystems.
Nothing concerns me more, not peak oil or climate change or peak water or peak anything, than the loss of biodiversity and loss of entire ecosystems due to humans being in overshoot.
I ended up putting the majority of my net worth and majority of my time buying up and restoring 400 acres of cloud forest in a buffer zone of a major national park in Panama.
There are still sizable refuges of habitat in the neotropics from where the genetic material of montane and rain forests will one day spread out once humans retreat. The devastation in southeast asia is horrible beyond words and these remnant refuges are also imperiled. There we may justifiably feel all jacked up......
just remember that these refuges of remnant habitat, even in the worst of places, will one day expand again once human population retreats......that is the consolation one must focus on to calm those jacked up feelings.... that is how far we have come...
Patiently awaiting the pathogens. Our resiliency resembles an invasive weed. We are the Kudzu Ape
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