{"id":45842,"date":"2019-05-01T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45842"},"modified":"2019-05-01T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:26:13","slug":"bavarians-vote-to-stop-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45842","title":{"rendered":"Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/05\/01\/bavarians-vote-to-stop-extinction\/\">Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world is in the throes of an extinction crisis unlike any throughout paleoclimate history, aka: the Sixth Mass Extinction, keeping in mind that the normal \u201cbackground rate\u201d for extinction is 1-to-5 species gone per year. But, what if it is five (5) every 24 hours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Answer: It\u2019s a lot more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to scientists, the current extinction rate is more than 1,000xs the normal background rate, or, in the simplest of terms, instead of 1-to-5 species extinctions per year, it\u2019s clipping along at an alarming rate of somewhere between 25-to-250 species of plant, insect, bird, and mammal extinctions every 24 hours! That\u2019s unsustainable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, integral resources for sustaining life have already been severely undermined, and it\u2019s proven in studies of mass loss of arthropods, and other key elements of biodiversity from Australia to pristine European nature preserves to uninhabited tropical rainforests, as the Anthropocene (the current geological age during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment) haphazardly destroys and poisons life-sourcing ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, it\u2019s gotten so extreme that human-made deathly chemical toxins are found in Mt. Everest\u2019s snow (29,000 feet up) as well as in deep-water squid (3,800 feet down) proof that what\u2019s ordinarily so egregious that its universally considered \u201cunbelievable\u201d at times proves to be \u201cbeyond believable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world has started taking notice, and it\u2019s Germany where the Age of Enlightenment has been resurrected by enlightened skeptics, known as \u201cliberals\u201d back in the day (1700s), challenging current values and exposing false truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quasi-enlightenment surge of yesteryear is happening in Bavaria, Germany\u2019s most conservative of 16 federal states, led by the Christian Social Union (\u201cCSU\u201d) since 1946, as this powerful bastion of political conservatism responds to grassroots citizen campaigns and a recently passed referendum to \u201cprotect nature,\u201d primarily via major changes in industrial farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction The world is in the throes of an extinction crisis unlike any throughout paleoclimate history, aka: the Sixth Mass Extinction, keeping in mind that the normal \u201cbackground rate\u201d for extinction is 1-to-5 species gone per year. But, what if it is five (5) every 24 hours? 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