Our Arctic Sunrise, Year 4.5 Billion
The Living Planet Report
Anthropocene is a word I personally like. You encounter it quite often in the things I write and talk about. It is, in my opinion, a word that is as beautiful as it is powerful, and it is a word that shifts our entire world on its axis. This simple word encapsulates all that has progressed through human history, every single day of our global past and our shifting present day reality. It is our shared, mutual future.
The word Anthropocene goes far beyond geology and hard to understand science. It captures the simple thing that is all our reality, the way humanity has lived and the cause and effect of it all.
It also shows us the globally shared responsibility we all must shoulder. It is a word and a concept that defines the facts of our present day reality.
This single word provides a focused lens that captures the changing reality of human life and planet Earth. There are no obfuscated truths here, no shadows to hide within. Life in the Anthropocene is the simple truth of life on Earth and it is the summary of the catastrophic effect modern day society has already had and continues to have. Not just on this planet, whose planetary bounds we have broken and shattered. But the industrialization of the last 100 years has harmed human life too, not just a few, but all of us.
All the soon to be 10 billion homo sapiens and all the rapidly diminishing animals. We are all this single word.
It communicates the urgency with which we must act and it shows us how the lies and global capitalistic worldview of infinite natural resources and exponential growth that greedy shareholders and owners rejoice at must come to an abrupt end. It tells us these things because we are no longer a small entity on a big and everlasting, infinite planet. We, the human race, are now a cataclysmic devastation on a small planet, where we have reached the saturation point in the last 100 years.
One such truth is roughly 40% of all Giraffes being wiped out from planet Earth in the last 30 years, and no one even noticed it until now.
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The turning of a new year.
And as such, I will now let you write all the needed thoughts and words. This is, after all, a new year and with that comes your own revelations. Your own will and choices are what comes into play, and that is what matters. So I will now let you write this story upon the background of reality's own data. Do with that what you want.
40% of all Giraffes has been wiped out by human hand in the last 30 years.
On average, the population of all vertebrate species has declined with around 58% since 1970, and the pace is increasing!. By 2020 vertebrates might have hit a 67% decrease.
Current trends are that we individually eat more, 800kcal more per day and person in some nations compared to 1970 despite moving less, we pollute more, we consume more, we eat less nutritious food. All while we also increase our global population.
Billions of people already suffer from decades of shortened and sicker than needed lifespan due to human-caused pollution.
We, as a global species already use natural resources that equal close to 2 planet Earth's if our yearly gluttony continues.
Since 1970, 50% of tropical broadland leaf forests have been destroyed and converted to human resources.
Close to 50% of temperate grassland area had been converted to human resources by 2000.
The European grassland butterfly indicator shows us that since the historical low of butterfly species in the 1990 grassland butterfly species have continued in average to decline with a further 33% since then.
There are rays of hope tho.
Thanks to hard work and natural fortresses across Europe going hand in hand with a growing focus on sustainability in all areas of modern day life across the 28 member states of the European Union, in the last few decades some notable big carnivores in Europe, including bears, lynx, wolverines and wolves have mounted a small but hopeful comeback.
And that is all our hope, that is the way we turn the entire world around. By continuing that work, by fortifying our focus on sustainable societies, a healthy world and healthy people and wildlife.
So none of this global destruction has to continue.
The hundreds of millions of additional diabetes case, and cancer, the obesity, the destruction of fish, cheetahs, giraffe, tigers, people. None of that has to continue, and it cant continue if we care about the future of not just planet Earth but the human race and our own individual life and health as well.
Healthier food production, healthier food choices, less red meat consumption, less soda, less fossil fuel, better and healthier food in the elderly care. More physical activity from the cradle to the grave. Less pollution in soil, water, air. Healthcare, industries, energy production, cars and transport. Education. Equality and a livable income for all.
All of these changes are easy to implement. But that is your story. That is your chapter to write. As a global species, we are all writing that chapter right now as the individuals we all are.
Write it well because we are all the authors of our present day and future life and we are writing this story together.
It was the year
4.5 Billion
[ "and
with the rising
sun
we turned,
the pages
of a brand new day" ]
Our Paean
Out of my, shallow grave
You raise me from the soil,
with your
haunting words that play
on the senses of the
imaginary, With strokes of life
that warms my soul
with your tongue
that is so very skilled and sensuous,
You call me up
To dance beneath
the ever tree
to the right of you
For all
eternity
But once I stand,
you raise your head, from down
your
knees
And while my hand was
not
thought, to be
yours, to hold, beyond the grave forlorn
In the shadows
Of each silent night, we found a lease
To play, like the moon
and roaming
wolf that follow close
to each other
like
two birds, of feathers,
we are now playing tag
Eternal
as one we rush
through mist
on top
what is, but broken fortress
From within, A hymn, of bursting hearts,
perhaps it comes from down, the beavers
river, curled up dreams like baleful stars
with raging foam of moving oceans
that greet our
last, few steps
like stones and soil, we flow together
From mountains top
That fall, so high, back to the crust
of a thousand sea
Until once more,
the light
Of day, comes to cease
Our lustful games, the sun that passed
the night
Beneath our
sprawling tree
Come good morning
To say, goodbye,
You raise me soon
Enough, to dance
Another night,
and
together
We stayed, remain, we fall so slow,
we run with stars we swim,
climb and bleed,
venture forth
for all eternity
Beneath this seldom tree
"The Lost World of Planet Earth"
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