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Tag Archives: biodiversity loss
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other existential planetary boundaries
Preface. Almost all environmental stories in the media are about greenhouse gases. Yet there are dozens of others in the meta/polycrisis and existential boundaries (Rockström 2009). Overpopulation is the driver, but the severity and magnitude is made possible by fossil … Continue reading
Livestock threatened by toxic invasive species on rangeland
Preface. Will cattle, sheep,goats, and horses have to be raised on feed lots in the future to prevent range land poisoning from invasive plants? Each year poisonous plants adversely affect 3-5% of the cattle, sheep, and horses that graze western … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, BioInvasion, Farming & Ranching, Peak Food
Tagged biodiversity loss, Bioinvasion, invasive species, plants
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We’ve taken over too much of the planet for pasture and crops
In the article “Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?” by Christopher Kemp in NewScientist, these charts of increasing intensity of pasture and crop land from 5000 BC (18,000,000 population) until 2000 (6,150,000,000 people) show that humans are laying … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Overpopulation
Tagged agriculture, aquifer depletion, biodiversity loss, crops, green house gas emissions, pasture, rangeland, topsoil erosion
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Invasive Species prevent new species from evolving: human induced mass extinction recovery will take longer than thought
Richard A. Kerr. February 10, 2012.More Than One Way for Invaders to Wreak Havoc. Science: Vol. 335:646 Ravenous pythons and anacondas invading the Florida Everglades are ravaging the local ecology. But a study published last month suggests that invasive species … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, BioInvasion
Tagged biodiversity loss, Bioinvasion, invasive species
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