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Ask Etsy and eBay to stop allowing the sale of #wildlife on their platforms:
https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/FRegDsLJrk6OIi9pZQOOlg2 (via Center for Biological Diversity) #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #ebay #etsy

I was sitting in VR in a 360° video.

The recording was made from a 360° camera in the middle of a pride of lions.

It was surreal to be sitting there, seeing something from a rare, if not impossible point of view.

Then I had the thought, "They will be extinct soon".

How many more experiences will be relegated to video or #VR only?

#conservation #environment #extinction

#Poetry #Book #PoetryBook #Chapbook #Pamphlet #PoetryPamphlet #QPoetryComrades #Ecology #Conservation #Cosmology #CosmologicalEcology #SciFi #DrakeEquation #FermiParadox #SETI #UKPoetry #Extinction #DoWeHaveAFuture?

I wrote a book.

It is called "For the hypothetical aliens" and it is about our place in the universe, how we relate to nature, and what that means for us, individually.

It takes a stance somewhat centred on the dissonance between a SciFi way of looking at things vs. "realism".

It's about 40 pages of actual poetry plus the contents page, acknowledgements etc and (warning) it does contain one five page poem purporting to be about a mathematical equation...

The usual price is £5 but I am discounting them to £4 at the moment. Shipping in the UK is £1.80.

If you live elsewhere in the world we'll have to strategize because there have been problems sending pamphlets/magazines from the UK since Brexit 😢.

If you want to order one, or invite me to read from it at your poetry evening, please PM me.

Contents page of a poetry pamphlet reading:

Dedication 8
Slightly more serious dedication 8
By way of a preface… 11
A note on broken hearts 12
All about the Drake equation 14
A note on the Kardashev scale 19
This is us, speaking 21
On the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 22
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 24
The city on the edge of whatever 25
It isn’t what they say, or even how they say it, but more about there being any they to speak at all 27
What is her mission here on earth... 28
The universe speaks to you 29
Personal space probe 33
She knows whereof she speaks… 34
We are nothing if we do not learn from this 37
On waking… 38
On man’s inhumanity to man… 40
Everything I know about humanity… 42
Let’s be clear, the book has ended 47
The shapes of things to come 48
Addendum 51
Acknowledgements 52
About the author 53

Cover of a poetry pamphlet, the title is "For the hypothetical aliens". It is orange and worn, like an old document folder, and it has some sort of security stamp declaring the contents top have been reclassified "Non sensitive"

An inside page from a poetry pamphlet showing the start of a poem:

_The universe speaks to you_

I - Water...

...flows,
but has no thought of flowing. Every droplet
of rain free
to follow its weird
find its level
bead the underside
of a leaf, the whole
nonetheless
adding up to moorland brook, burbling
here and now and in a single direction. Far downstream,
current toys with grit
does not imagine things better
if this pebble were elsewhere
but nags at it
wobbles it
urges it to move
and a mere
thousand years later
a mighty estuary deltas
one side of the continent. The stream meanwhile
is cutting a new channel
through the limestone ridge.

Each molecule is part of something larger
and doesn't know
or things it knows do not make sense. Water's
unfeeling mechanism
floods a city or builds an ecosystem
and even if the outcome of civilisation
is nothing humans comprehend
it will be that rich.

Emissions per country (emissions are moving to the 'factories of the world'):
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions?insight=global-emissions-have-increased-rapidly-over-the-last-50-years-and-have-not-yet-peaked#key-insights

Emissions corrected for trade (the biggest polluters of first world countries more or less emit the same since 1990):
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?tab=map&time=latest&facet=none&Gas+or+Warming=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Consumption-based&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+capita&country=CHN~USA~IND~GBR~OWID_WRL

We really need to consume less.

#climatechange #climatecrisis #emissions #pollution #carbonemissions #extinction #humancausedclimatechange #greentransition #breadcrumb

We're not reducing CO2 emissions, we're just relocating them

CHANGE MY MIND

https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0380 Ford is trying to repeal the endangered species act. The bill is called the "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act," which is awful on multiple levels. The commenting period on the Environmental Registry ends May 17. Please write something to stop this. He's determined to do his part for extinction events while paving over the Green Belt. #GreenBelt #DougFord #Environment #Ontario #EndangeredSpecies #ecology #extinction

An image featuring a news alert about the Ford government gutting protections under the Endangered Species Act. It includes a portrait of Doug Ford, a barn owl in flight, a frog, and a forested landscape with water.

Trump has launched more attacks on the environment in 100 days than his entire first term

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days

#trump #fascism #environment #climatechange #biodiversity #extinction #ecosocialism

We are scientists, and we are taking action!

Read article

#extinction #rebellion #xr #rebelforlife #climate #climatechange

#News: Scientists call for #storytelling in #science to effectively communicate #climatechange and #extinction in order to push for urgent action. Time to connect data with emotion to inspire people. #Biodiversity #ScienceCommunication #SciComms https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250402123035.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

"Climate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony Blair"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/29/phasing-out-fossil-fuels-doomed-to-fail-tony-blair-climate

With that attitude it is indeed doomed...

But fair enough, if I would be dead in about 15 years and wouldn't care about others, I would probably say the same thing.

#climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #emissions #DeusExMachina #DeadlyOptimism #carboncapture #humancausedclimatechange #breadcrumb

Drake meme

Drake rejecting: Change my behaviour and use simple, proven ways to reduce CO2 emissions

Drake approving: Keep my way of living and believe in complex, unproven ways to reduce CO2 emissions

**Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions**

“_The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction._”

Cuaresma DCN, Ito H, Arima H, Yoshimura J, Morita S, et al. (2025) Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0322174. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322174.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Fertility #Extinction #Population #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @anthropology

By analyzing the #SecondarySuccessionDynamics of a #SubtropicalForest in Southeast China over 68 years, Shan Rao et al. showed that exploring the contribution of #SpeciesColonization and #Extinction is likely the key to gaining a more mechanistic understanding of the drivers of #CommunityPhylogenetic and #FunctionalStructures over succession.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtad008

Location and views of the survey transects. The four transects of the Spirit Valley Forest in the Purple Mountain of Nanjing were shown (Photo credit: Xin-Yu Miao).

Yan et al. explore the #climatic niche breadth of Betula spp.--likely to be a key attribute in their ability to avoid decline or #extinction under #ClimateChange.
Find out more in this remarkable new #JSE paper!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13176
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #evolution #PlantSci #botany #OpenAccess

Four world maps to support the reported impacts of climatic niche breadth, phylogeny, traits and ploidy on geographical ranges of Betula species.

"The Middle Arm project
is a proposed Northern Territory government development involving the construction of wharves and jetties to be used by industries including liquified natural gas, carbon capture and storage and critical minerals."
"If the project goes ahead, the Middle Arm peninsula is expected to also lose: 70% of its old growth woodlands, which provide habitat for threatened fauna; 28% of its rainforest; 61% of its seasonal wetlands; and 12.46% of saltpan roosting habitat for the critically endangered far eastern curlew, according to the draft assessment."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/29/leaked-document-shows-two-threatened-species-could-be-wiped-out-at-middle-arm-development-site
#Fossilfuels #extinction #Darwin #NT #biodiversity #destruction #ClimateBreakdown

🔴 Breaking News #XR #XRItaly :ecoanarchism_heart:
È partita da poco l’occupazione della sede produttiva della #Leonardo spa: https://t.me/XRItaly/3382

#climatechange #extinction #rebellion

'“With one year you cannot say that all the future will be lost,” Ciais cautioned.

But he’s worried the Earth might be on track to warm more rapidly than some scientists — and world leaders — expect. Many climate models don’t account for an increasingly rapid breakdown of Earth’s natural ecosystems, accelerated by wildfires, droughts, pests and other climate-related disasters.'

Fun stuff.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-noaa-downplayed-a-huge-finding-co2-surged-last-year/

#climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction #breadcrumb

#News: While 1000's of extant wild #animals face #extinction, millions are being spent reviving dire wolves in labs. End the major causes of animal extinction now: hunting, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and deforestation.
#Boycott4Wildlife https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/12/why-resurrect-the-dire-wolf-when-existing-animals-are-facing-extinction?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

This is a good start to solving a national problem
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/27/drones-ai-and-one-long-fence-kangaroo-islands-war-on-a-clawed-predator-that-kills-15bn-australian-animals-a-year
#extinction #feralCats

#Trump administration fast-tracks #oil and #mining projects, angering #environmentalists

By Mary Cunningham
Updated on: April 25, 2025

"The Trump administration said it will accelerate permit approvals for #mining, #drilling and #FossilFuel production and transportation on public land, fast-tracking a review process that would normally take years.

"In announcing the emergency procedures Wednesday, the Department of the Interior, which oversees the management of federal lands and natural resources, said the permitting process will now take up to '28 days at most' — a drastic departure from the current one- to two-year timeline.

"The government agency said the move is in response to President Trump's January 20 declaration of a national energy emergency. In an executive order on the first day of his second term, the White House said it would 'eliminate harmful, coercive 'climate' policies that increase the costs of food and fuel.' [#ClimateChange, caused by harmful oil, gas and coal, will take care of that! #FAFO!]

"The speedy permitting policy opens the door for the U.S. to expand oil and gas projects and for Mr. Trump to make good on his promise to "#DrillBabyDrill" — a common refrain on his campaign trail. The new guidelines will apply to a wide range of energy projects, including crude #oil, #NaturalGas and #coal.

"The U.S. leads the world in oil and gas production, with an output of 20 million barrels of oil a day and accounting for roughly a quarter of global gas production, according to the International Energy Agency.

"The DOI said it would use #emergency authorities under the National Environmental Policy Act, #EndangeredSpeciesAct and the National #HistoricPreservationAct to expedite the permitting process.

" 'The United States cannot afford to wait,' Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said in a statement on Wednesday. 'President Trump has made it clear that our energy security is national security, and these emergency procedures reflect our unwavering commitment to protecting both.'

Environmental advocates rebuked the announcement, saying that in addition to adverse environmental impacts on public land and water sources, the expedited procedures will strip away community members' ability to weigh in on projects happening in their own backyards. Experts say the move is expected to draw legal challenges."

#LeaveItInTheGround #Oiligarchy #NoDrilling #NoPipelines #BigOilAndGas
#ExtractiveIndustries #USPol #WaterIsLife #SacredSites #WildlifeRefuge #Extinction #CulturalGenocide #Ecocide #MadKingTrump

#extinction

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