Contrary to popular belief, I'm not totally against sharing news on social media. It just that I'd rather y'all shared news about what actually matters.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/ocean-acidification-crosses-planetary-boundaries/

#SixthExtinction

@andrewstroehlein IMHO the worst crisis is the #SixthExtinction aka the #BiodiversityCrisis --if we don't do something about that very soon, our entire species is going to go extinct. No more humans on Earth, never again. #OceanAcidification and #ClimateChaos are running wild, pesticides and #PFAS are everywhere, entire biomes are going to collapse if nothing happens very soon. Or rather if things that have been happening for decades don't just stop almost immediately.
#Sudan is part of the whole human drama, and the reason why almost nobody in the richer parts of the world takes any notice is simple: #racism and #antisemitism . #Gaza gives all the antisemites a good excuse to hate the Jews a little more than usual, if you ignore the fact that not all Jews support Netanyahu's extreme right regime, even many Israelis are trying to stop them. OTOH #Hamas gives all the islamophobes a good excuse to hate Muslims more than usual while pretending to be philosemitic. But Sudan? That's just some poor place in Africa, nobody cares.

@infoseclogger @catsalad When the ongoing biosphere collapse aka the #SixthExtinction continues like this just a little longer, there won't be enough food for all of us humans on this planet anymore, people will be starving in unbelievable numbers, even in the countries that we call "rich".

@jik The collapse is happening one way or another, but we need to fight the system to increase the probability of our species Homo sapiens surviving the next few millennia, which will be very critical due to the #SixthExtinction which we have unleashed. Our civilisation is in decline, but that's OK, humans had civilisations before ours, and if any humans survive, there may be new civilisations in the future, even if it takes tens of thousands of years until this planet is once again stable enough to support a dense enough human population for a true civilisation.
There won't ever be another Industrial Age though, we've burned through the fossil resources like ores and minerals, those aren't coming back.

@Ruralhermit The young chestnut trees grow fast. How long until you have chestnuts to share for others to grow? You could get enthusiastic about reforestation using the friend’s mature tree as a chestnut source. We have a few nursery bought Dunstan chestnut trees robust enough to produce nuts. #rewild, #sixthextinction, #minnesota, #chestnuts.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes Hydra headed crisis. Billionaire donor class. The billionaires are racing to destroy our habitat. #sixthextinction.

@Brad_Rosenheim This is so damaging for the planet. #extinction, #sixthextinction.

I think that whatever happens, we absolutely must keep a healthy biodiverse population of horses alive if we can. When civilisation eventually collapses, we will need riders to stich the remaining civilised islands back together. We humans are just a bunch of very smart monkeys, upright walking grassland apes with big mutant brains that need a lot of fat and protein, but once we ride horses, we can have a very well organised society while staying mobile until we run out of grasslands. Savannah, steppe, prairie, pampa, whatever the local type of grassland ecosystem is called, once humans have horses, we can always live rather good lives there because we evolved for it, and so did the horses.
The grasslands will be different in the future because they will shift by thousands of kilometres if all this climate mayhem continues as projected (and in order for it to continue, all we have to do is not to change anything we're doing), with new species of plants and animals evolving from whatever survives there, but as long as there is a lot of grass, horses will thrive there, and so will nomadic tribes.
Whether people can still use horses to replace broken machines that cannot be repaired will have a significant influence on the probability of survival. We (well, those few of us who survive, not me; I won't live to see the end of it, I'm almost 50) might have to party like it's 1699, but it's better than partying like it's 5,000BC, and even that is better than partying like it's 50,000,000BC when there were those cute little mini horses, and that was because all the large mammals had died out because the planet was too fucking hot for them.
Just look at how populations of non-human, non-pet and non-livestock vertebrates are plummeting right now. Some species are thriving, mostly small omnivores like mice or pigeons, but all the other vertebrates are vanishing because we're destroying their habitats to grow crops or build big concrete boxes that suck up a lot of energy and raw materials and spew out heat and rubbish. Keeping both humans and horses alive during such a collapse will be hard, but if we lose horses, we will probably fall all the way down to a Palæolithic way of life with no chance of ever getting out of it again.
People keep talking about the climate as if it were the only thing that is killing us, while the biodiversity collapse is actually the thing which is doing us in right now. If we put enough greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to tip the Earth into a global Hothouse Age like back in the days of the tiny horses that were the ancestors of all horses, donkeys, zebras, and the tiny lemurs that would over millions of years evolve into monkeys, into apes, and into us, well, that will definitely be the end of us and of 95% of all other species of plants, fungi, animals, whatever, most complex multicellular organisms will be having a bad time, but waterbears or moss piglets or whatever you like to call them, tardigrades, they will barely notice that there's another mass extinction. But the biosphere will heal, our good old Earth will be fine again in five million years, maybe ten if it's really bad. New species will evolve from the survivors.
If Homo sapiens, the last surviving species of the genus Homo, doesn't go extinct, there will be future hominids, and maybe some distant descendant a couple of million years in the future starts another Industrial Revolution and ruins everything again. Nope, not going to happen, all the fossil fuels are gone. Ha-ha! No, any postindustrial civilisation for a very, very long time will be able to start another Industrial Age. Once that's gone, it's gone. We might be able to preserve a lot of the theoretical knowledge, but we won't have the mass production. If it can't be done in a village workshop, it can't be done at all. I think the Amish are a rather weird bunch, but at least they understand that reliance on complex technology beyond what can be made and repaired locally makes you vulnerable. And horses need neither oil nor electricity.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #overshoot #collapse #SixthExtinction #ClimateChaos

Since I refuse to go back to bed, Prince has decided that sleeping on top of the human bed isn't going to be as nice as he had thought, and he has retreated to his little kitty bed in the cave underneath the human bed.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking about the weird weather. Those who still think that #ClimateChange isn't going to be a big problem in Central Europe have no idea what's coming. A day ago we thought we might get temperatures as low as -20°C very soon, today it looks more like we're going to have +20°C instead.
This is the current state of the global climate regime, and it's not going to get much better for hundreds of years, provided we do everything we can to help the biosphere heal itself and sequester carbon while doing so; otherwise it'll be thousands or even tens of thousands of years before it gets any better. Just think about it.
We're lucky if we get only the +20°C _or_ the -20°C this time. Getting hit first with one and then with the other is something we will have to deal with in the future, as it will eventually happen in late winters and early springs in the future. And it will be fucking deadly to many organisms out there, including our food. If you think food is too expensive now, just wait and see. Heatwaves with extremely high temperatures over a couple of weeks are also good at killing crops. Or long periods of rain that drown anything. It's not just sudden extreme weather that's a problem, it's also extremely long periods of exactly the same bloody weather.
If we don't want to starve, we need to remember that we're omnivores. Very few animals can eat such a wide range of foods as we can, yet we eat only a tiny, ever shrinking window of organisms. We grow fewer and fewer species of plants for food, and we grow fewer and fewer cultivars of each species. We replace robust old breeds of pigs or chickens with new ones that are suffering from hereditary diseases which make them grow faster (as long as they get their antibiotics so they don't die from a random germ that's making the rounds). And most of us in the West don't even think about eatings worms or grubs or snails.
Do you know why traditional Chinese cuisine is so full of recipes that use ingredients which seem weird and disgusting to Westerners? It's because there were so many famines in Chinese history that they never forgot that humans are omnivores. When the weird and disgusting stuff is all you have left, you can at least use every trick in your sleeve to make it as tasty as possible. And many ingredients only seem disgusting if you have never tasted them. Anyway, we really need to find out how not to starve when #ClimateChaos and #WeatherWhiplash kill our crops. We need to work on it before it happens. We haven't got much time left, we don't know how much.

And now we need to #FightFascism while trying to survive #GlobalWeirding at the same time, because one global catastrophe isn't enough, so we get at least half a dozen catastrophes at once, the most deadly of which is the #SixthExtinction , of course. And fascism, one of those catastrophes, will blame the foreigners, socialists, Muslims, Jews, the brown-skinned Untermenschen, the liberals, the queers, and the catastrophe will "solve" the other catastrophes by killing "useless eaters" in death camps, we've seen it before. Maybe they'll sell them as Soylent Green afterwards.

We're headed in this completely atrocious direction, and we got here because we always wanted only the moderate futures, the ones that weren't radically different from the present. Moderate futures are completely sold out though, all possible futures are radical ones.
And I really wish I was a cat and didn't have to think about all this shit.

#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis

@0x00string @alexadeswift @breadandcircuses We're highly intelligent omnivores, so as long as the #SixthExtinction doesn't escalate to the point where all large terrestrial vertebrates vanish (which unfortunately isn't even near as unlikely as I'd like it to be), the genus Homo will probably survive, even if our numbers shrink dramatically, complex societies vanish, and the survivors form new tribal post-collapse societies. The Industrial Age is done for, I think, I cannot see any way to get out of this mess without a global #collapse of civilisation.

based on current trends, I wouldn't bet on humans surviving until 2080, so there may be nobody there to mourn Britain's favourite fish: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/31/brown-trout-britain-favourite-fish-at-risk-of-wipeout-within-decades-predicts-report #science #ClimateCatastrophe #environment #extinction #fish #SixthExtinction

an #asteroid impact in 2032 is no worry at all - the #trumpocalypse and associated horsemen will have blown up our planet before then.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032 #ClimateCatastrophe #SixthExtinction

#birds #buildings #sixthextinction #migration ##climatecrisis Live ones go in paper bags, dead ones in the freezer: the volunteers saving birds that fly into windows | Birds | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/02/live-ones-go-in-paper-bags-dead-ones-in-the-freezer-the-volunteers-saving-birds-that-fly-into-windows

@seachanger. It is a graphic example of the sixth extinction. #sixthextinction.

@animalculum. Biodiversity is much more likely in old growth forest. #oldgrowthforests, #sixthextinction.

Noam Chomsky turned 96 years old today, 7 December 2024.

A transcript of the previous video is at:
https://forfatternesklimaaksjon.no/2022/07/23/noam-chomsky-a-long-carefully-executed-campaign-to-destroy-organized-human-life-on-earth/

Recorded at the American Solar Energy Society’s 51st Annual Conference, June 21, 2022.

#NoamChomsky #SixthExtinction

“There’s this acceleration of #extinction risk with each increment of temperature rise.”

1.3 C (current warming): 1.6 percent of species
1.5 C (aspirational Paris Agreement target): 1.8 % of species
2 C (official Paris agreement target): 2.7 % of species
2.7 C (where current policies and pledges get us): 5 % of species
4.3 C (higher emissions scenario): 14.9 % of species
5.4 C (a worst-case warming scenario): 29.7 % of species

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/389843/climate-change-wildlife-extinction-study
#SixthExtinction

5-Dec-2024
Climate change threatens global #biodiversity, with extinction risks escalating at higher temperatures

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1066448 #science #ClimateCatastrophe #SixthExtinction #ecology

@adrinux. Thank you for sharing the article. The extinctions of the megafauna and habitat are still sending ripples. #megafauna, #sixthextinction.