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Tried to get the chimney capped once before, but the chimney guys ghosted us and it got forgotten. While not endangered, the populations of Vaux's Swifts are declining because of the loss of habitat (they nest in dead trees), so I hate to deprive them, but they're noisy, and I'm concerned about bird flu seeping into the house. So I'm investigating obtaining some nesting boxes as an alternative after we close up the chimney.
#birds #lossofhabitat #birding #birdhouses #swifts #vauxsSwift

A Vaux's swift in flight, like a little Harrier fighter jet with feathers.
Photo from AllAboutBirds.org and the Merlin bird-ID app.

The 5 biggest drivers for extinction are:
* destruction of habitats
* monocultures
* pollution (microplastic, pesticides, heavy metals, forever chemicals, ...)
* climate change
* invasive species

In other words the single biggest driver for extinction is capitalist extractivism and exploitation.
We clear forests to build roads, cultivate monocultures to feed our live stock, burn fossil fuels to power our consumerism and put our waste in the ocean. That destroys the ecosystem, species become extinct or seek refuge somewhere else and become invasive there.

And with "we" I don't mean you or me - I mean the morbidly rich!
I'm not blaming anyone but the 1%. They are the ones that have everything and cause everything.

There are a lot of solutions for this crisis, but we can't realize them without creating a system that prevents morbid abundance.
If the 99% decide to eat less meat, so we don't need so much land for our food - will that really save the rainforests or will it just free up more land for the rich to build more golf courses, factories and AI server farms?

We need to talk about a wealth maximum, an income maximum and an interest maximum. Then we'll realize we don't need endless growth, we don't need exploitation of the 99% and the ecosystem, we won't need 3 full time jobs to 'make a living' and we won't need mindless consumption to numb ourselves in our spare time.

#extinction #SpeciesExtinction #deforestation #LossOfHabitat #monocultures #pollution #EnvironmentalPollution #MicroPlastic #MicroPlastics #ForeverChemicals #BioDiversity #BioDiversityCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #InvasiveSpecies #capitalism #extractivism #exploitation #consumerism #MorbidlyRich #MorbidWealth #WealthMaximum #IncomeMaximum #InterestMaximum