Monday, April 29, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Do Humans Assume they Can Destroy God's Life Support System and Survive?
A petition from ENN with my comments also:
"Petitioners are calling for the U.S. Government to halt excavation of the healthy coral reefs that surround the Marshall Islands. Coral mining is taking place to provide building filler for the expansion of the Imata Kabua International Airport on Majuro.
"Led by marine ecologist, Dr Dean Jacobson, those opposing the excavation say there are more environmentally-friendly options available to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Sections of this precious reef remain untouched for now. There is still time to act.
"The FAA, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transport funded by U.S. taxpayers, has been dredging live coral from one of the healthy fringing reefs along the Majuro Island’s shoreline, when the filling material needed for the airport’s expansion could be obtained elsewhere. This coral mining in the Marshall Islands is in direct conflict with Bill Clinton's 1998 Executive Order 13089, which set out, "to preserve and protect the biodiversity, health, heritage, and social and economic value of U.S. coral reef ecosystems and the marine environment." (ENN email 041513 Author credit: Eleanor Ward
For more information regarding any of these issues, please contact alice@ngopolis.com.")
HB: I am stunned that my government of "the greatest nation on earth" does not have the vision or intelligence to honor and respect living organisms that keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute. It is very, very distressing that some assume that privatized cash profiteering for only 1 bank account justifies all. . . and that fewer than 0.001 percent of the population assume that they can take from the other to get for their private self while destroying the fragile but critical web for all life that keep all humans ( and all life) alive day to day and minute to minute. Some assume that they need to push the other down to lift the private self up and that cash and guns will solve all. But that is wrong, very, very wrong, wrong scientifically, wrong mathematically, wrong economically, wrong morally and often wrong legally. The Rule of Law was invented mostly to protect the innocent and this proposed mining jeapordizes the survival of the innocent around the world now, tomorrow and yesterday. Coral reefs are one of the critical organisms threatened by acidification from global climate change that has increased by 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution and scientists predict that they will become extinct by 2050! We cannot afford to accelerate that slaughter.
Was the Biblical story of Adam and Eve really a parable for the deadly costs and consequences of human destruction of God's green life-support system? Humans often have difficulty seeing or even trying to see past only one self-centered, urbanizing, privatized, obvious, narrow and shallow now, cash-driven by erroneous assumptions that kill. Humans often assume erroneously that cashflow floods and urban walls and barriers will keep humans alive and happy, but they are wrong, very, very wrong, wrong scientifically, wrong mathematically, wrong economically, wrong morally.
Cashflow floods destroy the productive watersheds and oceans that protect and nurture humans around the world, and keep all life alive and functional day to day and minute to minute.
When we lose God's green nature that keep all alive, then we lose us.. .. .and I don't think the 0.001% want to do that, either.
From ENN:
"Lack of public awareness, teamed with a determined political and economic agenda has meant that this environmental catastrophe has been allowed to take place openly. A concerned marine ecologist explains, “Despite violating Environmental Protection Agency regulations, no environmental assessment has been done, no mitigation strategies like coral transplanting from the dredge site are underway so FAA and US taxpayers are funding the unnecessary dredging of a coral reef”.
"There is a massive contradiction in U.S. policy between the sanctioning of this environmental destruction and the conservation work being done by other branches of the Government. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has recently pioneered the Coral Health and Monitoring Program. Through this program, NOAA has launched the Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS Network), which has made crucial progress in alerting experts to episodes of coral bleaching. This programme demonstrates clear recognition of the need to preserve coral reefs, yet coral mining in the Marshall Islands is still going ahead unchecked
"The world’s oceans constitute an essential resource for all life on earth, and are currently facing potentially catastrophic problems such as rising temperatures, ocean-acidification and overfishing. General estimates indicate that approximately 10% of the world’s coral reefs are already dead and about 60% are under threat. By the 2030s, 90% of reefs are expected to be at risk from both human activities and climate change and by 2050, all coral reefs will be in danger (World institute, Reefs at Risk revisited, 2012).
"Acidification, (the process of the world’s oceans becoming more acidic) is caused by the ocean’s absorption of the increased Carbon Dioxide (CO²) output in the atmosphere. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in December 2012, stated that, “Ocean acidity has increased by about 30% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution”, which according to their analysis is, “many times faster than anything experienced in the last 250 million years”.
"The consequences are extremely worrying. Acidic waters prevent marine creatures from being able to construct skeletons, and coral reefs are formed by the skeletal materials of corals as they grow and reproduce. If acidity levels continue to rise at this alarming rate, we will be facing the extinction of many oceanic life forms as the oceans become increasingly inhospitable
"Considering these alarming predictions for one of our most vital ecosystems, the senseless destruction of healthy coral reef for runway filler is unimaginably irresponsible.
"Coral reefs not only provide a habitat for over a million different species of marine life, but also act as essential off-shore barriers and wave breaks that protect beaches and coastal communities. While many argue that seawalls should be built to protect low-lying areas from natural disasters, including tsunamis and flooding, this method is expensive and has adverse ecological effects. As sea levels are predicted to rise, and weather patterns become more extreme, it is ever more important to protect and restore some of the earth’s natural coastal defences that lie on the sea bed – our coral reefs.
"To this end, there is a veritable army of people on the front-line of marine conservation; researchers, local communities and grassroots organisations, all working to understand, and protect these threatened ecosystems, and develop methods for restoring them.
"People such as Lisa Carne, who; after Hurricane Iris devastated coral reefs in Southern Belize in 2001; initiated a project which involves the transplantation of live, broken pieces of coral to those affected by the hurricane. The survival rate of the transported coral is extremely high and this method of reef restoration is now widely recognised within the marine conservation community.
"In Florida, a team of dedicated conservationists is developing new offshore reef restoration methods. The Coral Restoration Foundation is a small non-profit marine conservation organization head-quartered in Key Largo, that ‘farms’ corals for transplantation into reef systems.
"Other reef restoration methods involve the construction of artificial reef systems, using technologies such as such as Biorock™, which involves electrified steel structures that accelerate the accretion of calcium carbonate from the water, speeding up the process by which corals can form their hard skeletons. This technology has been successfully applied in many places, including, incredibly, the Marshall Islands themselves.
"Even though the myriad benefits of reef restoration far outweigh any financial investment, it is a slow process (corals are extremely slow growing), and also potentially costly (though not compared to the extortionate costs of ‘hard’ approaches to shore-line defence). Karl Fellenius, coral reef EIA Consultant, emphasises the importance of mobilising local groups whose lives are directly affected by the state of their reefs. He says, “There is so much money being spent...mobilizing resources for response to natural disasters, more should be allocated to community-based management or to 'soft' or natural approaches to shoreline protection.”
"Community-driven approaches to protecting what natural reef systems we already have are clearly preferable to having to invest in reef restoration and man-made coastal defences. To assist in the development of these kinds of community-led strategies for conservation and sustainable development, a new free-to-use website, NGOpolis.com, has recently arrived on the conservation and development landscape, and is poised to help connect communities that are facing similar environmental or socio-economic challenges.
"Creating successful, holistic solutions and inclusive conservation and development strategies requires dialogue, communication and cooperation amongst grassroots groups, NGOs, educational institutions, and specialists. Harnessing the power of online social networking, through NGOpolis users will now be able to build an extensive, global community of interest and action. Bypassing the politics of development and conservation will facilitate more effective, collective responses to some of our current challenges such as the ones facing our oceans.
"Whereas many of the issues facing coral reefs such as ocean-acidification and over fishing are complex and widespread, requiring consensus building and international mobilisation, in this case the mining of healthy coral by a government agency is an isolated problem that could be rectified immediately.
"In order to prevent this situation from reaching a crisis point; where investment in reef reconstruction will be necessary to protect the shoreline from erosion and to salvage livelihoods that rely on the economic benefits the reef provides; the College of the Marshall Islands, of which Dr Jacobson is a faculty member, and the community living on Majuro, are demanding the immediate cessation of coral mining from their local reefs. Coral mining in the Marshall Islands is incomprehensible at a time when everything possible needs to be done to save our ocean ecosystems. Signing Dr Jacobson’s petition directed towards the U.S Government is one simple step towards the protection of this one precious reef.
Author credit: Eleanor Ward
For more information regarding any of these issues, please contact alice@ngopolis.com."
"The Marshall Islands' beautiful coral reefs are vibrant ecosystems home to hundreds of species
"The result of coral mining, a 'borrow pit'; nothing remains of the living reef"
http://www.ennmagazine.com/12all/admin/images/admin/NGOpolis/The%20Marshall%20Islands'%20beautiful%20coral%20reefs%20are%20vibrant%20ecosystems%20home%20to%20hundreds%20of%20species_.jpg
http://www.ennmagazine.com/12all/admin/images/admin/NGOpolis/The%20result%20of%20coral%20mining,%20a%20'borrow%20pit';%20nothing%20remains%20of%20the%20living%20reef_.jpg"
Please stop destroying the web for all life, diverse critical organisms that produce the critical flows that we need to survive. Concrete and asphalt and metal disintegrate and crack through time, depreciating in value through time. But nature's amazing wonders increase in monetary value through time as they grow to produce all the critical flows that humans need, breathable oxygen as O2. .. .(not CO2, not deadly CO, not damaging O3. . . .) .. ..water to drink H2O. . . .rich, organic topsoil. . . and global systems of land, air and water that work, that function. But human carbon emissions have caused deadly changes in those global flows and ecological systems impossible to count in human cash. Human cash limits its self to counting only human cash. . . . .and counts the most critical but hidden flows the least, O2. . . .even though humans die within minutes without O2. .. . . counts the next most critical but hidden flow the next least, H2O, even though humans die within days without H2O. . . .cash counts the next most critical but hidden flow, rich, organic topsoil the next least that grows our food and shelter. .. even though humans die within months without food.
Some just don't get it and cling to the deadly assumption that privatized cash profiteering justifies all. . . . but it does not. Those that destroy our life-support system destroy their selves and all. But unfortunately, human cash systems don't even count that destruction. That is very, very sad and disturbing. Cash does not count life and it is impossible for it to count life because it destroys the critical flows and producers that sustain life of cellular organisms around the globe, a life support systems far too intricate and vast to see or even to imagine in human terms. Cash divides to count and counts to divide to crush the competition, the other, the unknown, the diverse, infinitely intricate and vast living systems, inalienable systems impossible to even imagine in human terms. .. . .a vast, richly productive system of very high intelligence: For example, the evidence is overwhelming that environment shapes genetic adaptation, as the halibut changes both shape and color to match its background, a miraculous feat.
Many religions of the world warn that humans need to count more than human cash, as Deuteronomy 11:13-20 warns of climate change if humans violate the laws of moral reciprocity to cause war instead of peace. Even Moses noticed that human actions can cause global climate change.
We can change the course of history from a deadly tailspin downward and invest in more fuel-efficient forms of transportation (the helicopter and airplane the two least efficient forms known to humans). . . .and invest in more mass transit and renewable energy: The sun could power all the needs of humans on earth x 11,000. . ...if we would invest in the infrastructure. But the dirty energy industries are blocking the way, killing us.
Humans need to stop being so stupid and count more than human cash. That is why Benjamin Franklin who signed our US Constitution insisted that we establish public schools and public libraries: A stupid population will destroy its self and all those around it. We can do better than that .. .. now.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Dying Veteran Writes to Cheney-Bush:
Dying Veteran Blames Bush-Cheney, Cheney-Bush for the Criminal War of Aggression Against Iraq:
http://beingliberal.tumblr.com/post/45835296198/the-last-letter-to-george-w-bush-and-dick-cheney
http://beingliberal.tumblr.com/post/45835296198/the-last-letter-to-george-w-bush-and-dick-cheney
We Need to Act Now: Einstein warned that if the bees die, humans die
". . . beekeepers and some researchers are starting to believe that a new class of pesticide, neonicotinoids, is to blame for the malady that has been seen since 2005. The pesticide has been found in hives of bees hit by colony collapse disorder.
Neonics, as they're referred to, have grown dramatically in use since 2005, the same period that bee deaths have risen."
Also, ribosomes of cells in bees sprayed with neonicotinoids were damaged and destroyed in the same hives that were sprayed with neonicotinoids. Patent(s) for neonicotinoids cited ribosomal damage as a risk for neonicotinoids.
We do not have a choice. Numerous nations have already banned neonicotinoids. Why hasn't the US? Are privatized cash bank accounts of less than 1% of our population worth more than the survival of 100%?
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
"The rules of engagement for the no fly zone dictate that no aircraft can fly within 1,000 feet of the ground in the five-mile radius surrounding the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill. The area located within this radius includes the nearby Pine Village Airport.
Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
"The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette revealed that the FAA site noted earlier today that "only relief aircraft operations under direction of Tom Suhrhoff" were allowed within the designated no fly zone.
"Suhrhoff is not an FAA employee: he works for ExxonMobil as an "Aviation Advisor" and formerly worked as a U.S. Army pilot for 24 years, according to his LinkedIn page " (Alternet, 2013). Outrageous.
So it's ok for serial killers to confiscate the evidence?
Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
Disgusting, Toxic Conflict of Interest: Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
Disgusting, Toxic Conflict of Interest with amazing video made before Exxon cried "no fly zone" to keep media out:
Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
Why Does Exxon Control the No-Fly Zone Over Arkansas Tar Sands Spill? | Alternet
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