The Biosphere Experiment - Making Of | ARTE.tv Documentary
Caroline and Corentin see a low-tech future: They want to live in harmony with the #natural world and they want to prove to others that it is possible. The #Biosphere Experiment is an attempt to live self-sufficiently in the #desert for 120 days and to survive and flourish in this extreme environment, they need to be prepared for their mission
I'm beginning to think that I'm being unfair to these creatures, though:
the majority of #vampires seems to know that they must care for their herd, so they might feed another day.
A vast majority (excluding #TaxMeNow) of billionaires in contrast are uninhibited parasites that won't stop until they've sucked the planet dry and destroyed the #biosphere.
Just reminded yet again by my news feed that for anyone obsessed with #space#colonization, #moon bases, human missions to #Mars etc. needs to read the complete saga of #Biosphere 2. And also remind yourself that not once in human history has a group of people been able to survive independently in an extremely hospitable isolated environment. It's pure theory that humans can survive without the luxury of an entire planet that caters to their every whim.
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change
In his latest book, Vaclav Smil tells the story of the Earth's biosphere from its origins to its near and long-term future. He explains the workings of its parts and what is known about their interactions.
In a country that faces #deforestation crisis & attendant #HabitatLoss, the sprawling park, stands apart. It's home to some of the world’s most #diverse & #endangered#wildlife, including hornbills, tarsier & babirusas.
@doomscroller wow Arctic permafrost holds an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon – roughly 51 times the amount of carbon the world released as fossil fuel emissions in 2019. #carbon#biosphere
This is a good time for me to share how #RCMP used drones to spy on us at Fairy Creek & Tiny House blockades. Then used surveillance data to locate our WIFI media & satellite communications stations. Then commenced siege raids, targeting our communications stations first & our food & medical stations after. We built portable solar powered satellite comms units, after 6 comms stations were destroyed by RCMP - we mounted them on donated hand wagons.
In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests—from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to modern crop production—and all uses of harvested biomass, including energy, food, and raw materials.
"Humanity exceeds its fair share of natural resources by more than 50% and likely needs to reduce this demand by 70-80% to operate within carrying capacity. Those with greater wealth are responsible for a disproportionately large share of overshoot."
The #NatureRestoration law, just (narrowly) passed by the #EU-Parliament, ruling that 20% of land and sea must be put back into their natural state, is a good example why internationally binding rules are of vital importance when it comes to protecting our #biosphere.
I don't believe, many countries would have managed to pass similar provisions as national laws.
Thanks to #Brexit, British #Tories had no say in the vote.
@thejapantimes
An expert on BBC just said the release is not safe, and, logically, tritium will be concentrated up the food chain as pollutants always do.
He suggested a great solution - use the contaminated water in the concrete required for the #Fukushima plant sea walls and other structures. He estimated the water would be consumed in 5 years as opposed to 30 in the release.
With a 12.5 yr half life, #radiation from tritium isolated in concrete from the #biosphere for 50 years would be 6%.
@fulelo
An expert on BBC just said the release is not safe, and, logically, tritium will be concentrated up the food chain as pollutants always do.
He suggested a great solution - use the contaminated water in the concrete required for the #Fukushima plant sea walls and other structures. He estimated the water would be consumed in 5 years as opposed to 30 in the release.
With a 12.5 yr half life, #radiation from tritium isolated in concrete from the #biosphere for 50 years would be 6%.
"The prognosis for the survival of a large proportion of extant species is not good. Our review lays out arguments clearly demonstrating that there is a biodiversity crisis, quite probably the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Dedicated conservation biologists and conservation agencies are doing what they can, focused mainly on threatened birds and mammals, among which some species may be saved from the extinction that would otherwise ensue. But we are pessimistic about the fate of most of the Earth's biodiversity, much of which is going to vanish without us ever knowing of its existence."
A study about the Sixth Mass Extinction from 2022 but still as accurate, alerting and pressing as ever. Which is why I wanted to boost it here.
I feel like it's one of the parts about climate change and human folly that is often disregarded for no apparent reason.
#ClimateCrisis will lead to many deaths and conflicts, especially (and mostly unjustified) in the global south, the ones suffering from the global north's colonialist bullshittery.
But, many don't seem to have in mind that if, for example, bees are gone, flowers won't get pollinated. Ask the Chinese people about it.
Earth's biosphere is intertwined in a very complex manner and us humans are just a small part of it, even if we may believe otherwise.
At the rate, species are currently vanishing, I find it highly alerting that it's being ignored by most media, except for those deeply involved with #climatechange and #nature
Safe and just’ climate boundary has already been breached, says contested study
"Now, more than a decade after planetary boundaries were first proposed, the updated Earth-system boundaries framework explores how to keep the planet stable while minimising “significant harm” to humans and other species, using a “justice framework”.
The authors select five of the nine original planetary systems – climate, biosphere, water, nutrients and air pollution – and identify eight key, quantifiable indicators that can monitor these systems.
These indicators – including warming level, area of natural ecosystems and surface-water flow – were “carefully chosen” to be “implementable for stakeholders in cities, businesses, countries across the world”, Rockström told a press briefing.
For each indicator, the authors assess the conditions needed to avoid “significant harm” at both global and local scales, taking into account the following justice considerations:
Interspecies justice: prioritising other species and ecosystems in addition to humanity.
Intergenerational justice: considering how actions taken today will impact future generations.
Intragenerational justice: accounting for factors including race, class and gender, which “underpin inequality, vulnerability and the capacity to respond” to changes in planetary systems. [...]"