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Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:30 pm
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for two reasons:
1. My purpose, nearly a decade ago, of convincing most reality
based people everywhere that human civilization, in order to
stop and reverse (i.e getting back to 350 PPM of atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide is sine qua non) the multiple extinctions causing
biosphere degradation (i.e. the Sixth Mass Extinction Event now
upon us), must VERY rapidly transition away from Hydrocarbon
Energy Sources to Renewable Energy Sources, has been largely
achieved. I have been one small voice among many that have made
it clear that clean energy must be made available to everyone,
not just the wealthy, if we are to survive Catastrophic Climate
Change.
2. Celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey asked,
"Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human
civilization) is going on now"?
My answer: YES.
It's the SOCIAL DARWINISM, stupid!
No matter how much progress we make in cleaning up the
biosphere, as long as the egocentric, morally bankrupt, empathy
deficit disordered, Social Darwinist Ideology continues to be
embraced by TPTB, we do not have a snowball's chance in Hell of
surviving our Existential Crisis.
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
“Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinism is actually based, not on "survival of the
fittest", but on fear of tomorrow, a morally bankrupt excuse for
rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish greed
dominated hoarding modus vivendi.
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> Every prudent man acts with knowledge, But a fool lays open
his folly. -- Proverbs 13:16
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> "One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others.
But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has
already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two
things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of
Survival in Auschwitz
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Social Darwinism is the world view that spawned the profit over
people and planet neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal intellectuals
like Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman
were all Social Darwinists long before they renamed
laissez-faire liberalism (that had been thoroughly discredited
by the Great Depression) with the catchy title of
"Neoliberalism".
The celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey
explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following
principle:
"There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of
money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with
one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be
privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they
shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct
or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources
and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume
absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and
creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of
humanity shall be deemed disposable."
"In human society, the amount of inequity is directly
proportional to the amount of iniquity." -- A. G. Gelbert
Sober Thinking requires that we all recognize the fact that a
society that is founded on altruism, not the "invisible hand" of
greed, is not optional if we wish to avoid exctinction.
Capitalism's "invisible hand" modus operandi is rooted in the
ideology of Social Darwinism.
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> “Capitalism is the astounding belief, that the most wickedest
of men, will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.” — John Maynard Keynes
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The main purpose of the Sober Thinking Forum is to convince you,
regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them, to soberly
think about these two quotes, embrace altruism, reject greed,
and convince as many people as you can that altruism is not
optional for human society:
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> "Look at our world, our country, our interactions with each
other……… this is not the mark of a healthy society, and if these
are the self-appointed leaders of this flaming meteor…..it’s
time to move on to new ideas and new people. Let’s relegate
these fools to history. They perpetuate a narrative that it is
right to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner
towards all. We simply can’t survive it any longer. Things will
change because they have to." -- Kathleen Wallace
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"Technical knowledge of Carrying Capacity will not save us; Only
a Massive Increase in Caring Capacity will." -- A. G. Gelbert
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📢 Why Sterilizing the Poorest 50% of Homo Sap Won't
Solve ANYTHING!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:35 pm
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October 06, 2015
[center]Human Population Growth: The Truth About How Human
Activity Threatens The Conditio Sine Qua Non For Our Survival
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What Is the Greatest Number of Children Born to One Woman?
As of 2014, the greatest number of children born to one woman
was 69. Birth records from the 1700s show that the wife of a
Russian peasant named Feodor Vassilyev gave birth 27 times — to
four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and 16 pairs of
twins. It was reported that 67 of the 69 children survived past
infancy. Vassilyev’s second wife reportedly gave birth to 18
children, which would make him the father of 87 children, with
all but three surviving infancy. It has not been proved that the
records are true, and some people believe that the numbers might
be inaccurate.
More about child birth rates:
Niger is the country with the most births per woman, at an
average of 6.16, with more than half of all Nigerian mothers
giving birth before age 18.
The greatest number of surviving children born to one woman at
one time was eight in 2009 in the United States.
The United Kingdom has the highest rate of childless women older
than 45, at more than 20%.
[center]Why Sterilizing the Poorest 50% of Homo Sap Won't Solve
ANYTHING! [/center]
Brainwashed Propaganda Victims and Fossil Fuelers' REACTION to
the ABOVE: 🤔
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The "Human Population Must Be Reduced" Propaganda Myth. Why it
is a divide and conquer tactic and why it has absolutely no
basis in scientific fact.
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>
> "The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal
to the total biomass of all the people on Earth.
>
> How can this be?! Ants are so tiny, and we are so big! But
scientists estimate there are at least 1.5 million ants on the
planet for every human being. Over 12,000 species of ants are
known to exist, on every continent except Antarctica. Most live
in tropical regions. A single acre of Amazon rainforest may
house 3.5 million ants."
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The Human biomass is tiny compared with thousands of species
from insects to spiders to rodents, along with many marine
creatures.
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See for yourself 🧐 the Evidence:
I will provide for you a couple of links for you to research but
let me give you a brief introduction to earth's biomass pyramid.
You have different trophic levels (life forms that eat other
life forms to survive).
The lower you are on the pyramid, the more collective mass you
have as a segment of the biosphere. What does that mean?
Here's a quote so you can see where I'm going with this:
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> "An ecological pyramid is a graphical representation that
shows, for a given ecosystem, the relationship between biomass
or biological productivity and trophic levels.
>
> A biomass pyramid shows the amount of biomass at each trophic
level.
>
> A productivity pyramid shows the production or turn-over in
biomass at each trophic level.
>
> An ecological pyramid provides a snapshot in time of an
ecological community.
>
> The bottom of the pyramid represents the primary producers
(autotrophs). The primary producers take energy from the
environment in the form of sunlight or inorganic chemicals and
use it to create energy-rich molecules such as carbohydrates.
This mechanism is called primary production. The pyramid then
proceeds through the various trophic levels to the apex
predators at the top.
>
> When energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next,
typically only ten percent is used to build new biomass. The
remaining ninety percent goes to metabolic processes or is
dissipated as heat. This energy loss means that productivity
pyramids are never inverted, and generally limits food chains to
about six levels. However, in oceans, biomass pyramids can be
wholly or partially inverted, with more biomass at higher
levels."
>
>
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Take insects as one example of the Laws of Thermodynamics as
applied to life forms in the Biosphere trophic (food chain)
pyramids.
In order for insects to BE food for spiders as well as many
other creatures, the biomass of insects has to be much, much
greater because of the heat energy losses in transferring energy
from the insect to the spider (about 90% is lost in heat). The
predators (that's what we are, by the way) are at the top of the
pyramid and have the least total biomass of all the life forms.
Lions, tigers, sharks, whales, bears, wolves, etc. have a tiny
planetary biosphere biomass in comparison with ants, earthworms,
rodents, and krill (those tiny shrimp like creatures that whales
eat). And the krill eat tiny nearly microscopic phytoplankton
(that has more biomass than the ubiquitous krill).
Mollusks, as well as ants and several thousand other species
have a larger biomass than humans. I bring up the mollusks
because they have a HUGE biomass. I studied them in depth in
college Zoology.
The phylum Mollusca:
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> "The phylum Mollusca is the second most diverse phylum after
Arthropoda with over 110,000 described species. Mollusks may be
primitively segmented, but all but the monoplacophorans
characteristically lack segmentation and have bodies that are to
some degree spirally twisted (e.g. torsion).
>
> The Phylum Mollusca consist of 8 classes:
>
> 1. the Monoplacophora discovered in 1977;
> 2. the worm-like Aplacophora or solenogasters of the deep sea;
> 3. the also worm-like Caudofoveata;
> 4. the Polyplacophora, or chitons;
> 5. the Pelecypoda or bivalves;
> 6. the Gastropoda or snails;
> 7. the Scaphopoda, or tusk shells; and
> 8. the Cephalopoda that include among others squid and the
octopus."
>
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Agelbert Note: The biomass pyramid in the oceans in regard to
mollusks and fish is NOT inverted. The oceanic "confusion" is
due to the fact that some mollusks are apex predators like giant
squid and the smaller mollusk predators like Octopodes that eat
fish. Most mollusks are small to very small and are food for
fish. They are the ones (bivalves near Fukushima) that
concentrate radionuclides in their tissues that then get in the
fish that eat them. :( :P
The smaller mollusks (most of them are less than a foot long)
are FOOD for fish. That means there HAS TO BE much more of them
than there are fish. And I'm sure you don't believe the human
biomass is greater than that of all the fish species, right? ;D
.
Now for some biomass weights:
Human population = 335,000,000,000 kg.
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> "Human population = 335,000,000,000 kg. This figure is based
on an average human weight of more than 100lbs, though (50kg, to
be exact). I don't know how accurate this estimate is,
especially considering that about 1/3 of us are children. There
are supposedly around 1.3 billion cattle in the world, and, put
together, they may weigh almost twice as much as our species."
>
> Antarctic krill, [I]Euphausia superba[/I] = 379,000,000,000
kg.
> There are more ants than krill. Also, metabolism plays a role
along with biomass. A "million ruby-throated hummingbirds will
consume much more food than one African Elephant, even though
both have about the same biomass (3,000kg, or 3.3 US tons).
>
> Thus, ants, as a group, may actually consume more resources
per year than antarctic krill, even though both may have roughly
the same biomass, because ants tend to be smaller, and live in
warmer environments. Although there may be about 10-15 times the
biomass of termites than cows in the world, studies have
suggested that termites might produce almost 30,000 times as
much methane per year because of their faster metabolism."
>
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As the article in the quotes above points out, humans are a huge
problem, not because of our biomass, but because of our carbon
footprint (I.E. the use of fossil fuels!). And guess what
portion of our population does over 80% of the Fossil Fuel
consumption? You guessed it! The upper 20%!
Who Done it?
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The Global Compact: 20% using 80% of the Resources
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To ACTUALLY address, confront and STOP the biosphere damage that
Homo Sap is doing, we must face the scientifically confirmed
REALITY that if you get rid of the bottom 50% of the human
population (the most poor among us) you will, I'm sorry to say,
not even dent the pollution and biosphere destruction.
AS pointed out in the biomass numbers, the amount of people
eating and defecating is not the problem, CARBON FOOTPRINT is
the threat to a viable biosphere. We must attack that problem by
reducing the carbon footprint of the most powerful people on
this planet.
NOTHING ELSE WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM. The solution, in addition
to a 100% transition to Renewable energy, involves eliminating
corporate energy welfare queen subsidies for both fossil fuels
and nuclear poison.
Democracy and a viable biosphere requires it from all of us.
The "let's reduce the human population"
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top
🐽 human pigs for the damage they do while attempting to
give the rest of us a totally unwarranted with ZERO empirical
basis ( but VERY clever
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What we need to do is transition to 100% renewable energy as
soon as possible. That will give our future generations a chance
to live in a viable biosphere.
If you agree please pass it on. Also, feel free to visit my
forum and post on any subject you wish. Thank you.
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Re: Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:38 pm
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[center]The predator survives – but the ecosystem
crashes[/center]
Date:October 6, 2015 Source: Linköping Universitet
The killer whales' main prey used to be newborn whale calves.
When whale populations fell dramatically due to intensive
hunting, they began to hunt seal instead. Then when the seal
population was quickly eradicated, the killer whales moved on to
sea otters. This reduced the pressure on sea urchins, the
preferred diet of the sea otters. As a result, the sea urchins
grazed down the kelp beds that have served as nurseries for many
different fish species and small marine animals. :(
What do killer whales, polar bears and humans have in common?
They are adaptable predators with the ability to select new prey
when their favourite food is in low supply. But this change can
disrupt entire ecosystems.
"If the predator is efficient at killing its prey, such a change
can lead to negative effects in the long term, for the entire
food web, even if in the short term it benefits the predator's
survival," says David Gilljam, doctoral student in theoretical
biology, who joined with Professor Bo Ebenman and PhD Alva
Curtsdotter to publish a new model-based study in Nature
Communications.
By working with both natural and computer-generated food webs,
the researchers can show how the overexploitation of resources
caused by predators changing their prey can, in the worst case,
lead to an extinction cascade, where species after species is
wiped out in a domino effect.
A dramatic example of this is the killer whale, whose main prey
was newborn whale calves. When whale populations fell
dramatically due to intensive hunting, they began to hunt seal
instead. Then when the seal population was quickly eradicated,
the killer whales moved on to sea otters. This reduced the
pressure on sea urchins, the preferred diet of the sea otters.
As a result, the sea urchins grazed down the kelp beds that have
served as nurseries for many different fish species and small
marine animals.
"Think of a rope that's made of a number of twisted fibres. When
force is applied to the rope, the force is spread across all the
fibres. If one fibre breaks, the remaining fibres take all the
force, with more force on each individual fibre. If more break,
eventually the whole rope will fail," says Prof Ebenman.
[center]A few examples from the real world:[/center]
•As the ice in the Arctic melts, it gets more and more difficult
for the polar bears to hunt seal -- their natural prey. Instead
they have started to venture onto the land, to feed on the eggs
and young of ground-nesting birds, which are already the prey of
other predators such as arctic foxes. The risk is that the
predatory pressure on these birds will be too great.
•West-African fishermen are abandoning their fishing grounds in
times of poor supply -- which is caused by industrial-scale
fishing. Instead they are hunting on nature reserves, which
leads to drastic reductions to the populations of prey animals
there. Humans are an extremely flexible, efficient predator, who
have massive impact on ecosystems.
The theoretical simulations presented by the LiU biologists
completely contradict what we previously believed took place,
when a predator loses its favourite prey.
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>
> "The belief was that an extinction cascade would be avoided if
the predator is adaptable and can shift to another prey. Our new
results indicate that the opposite can occur, and the
consequences can be even worse. A change in prey is a
double-edged sword -- in the short term it can help a flexible
predator survive, but long term it can negatively affect the
entire existence of the food web," says Prof Ebenman.
>
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Story Source:
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Linköping
Universitet. Note: Materials may be edited for content and
length.
Journal Reference:
1.David Gilljam, Alva Curtsdotter, Bo Ebenman. Adaptive rewiring
aggravates the effects of species loss in ecosystems. Nature
Communications, 2015; 6: 8412 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9412
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Re: Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:40 pm
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[move]Ninety percent of predatory fish gone from Caribbean coral
reefs due to overfishing[/move]
March 1, 2017
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
have found that up to 90 percent of predatory fish are gone from
Caribbean coral reefs, straining the ocean ecosystem and coastal
economy. The good news? They identified reefs, known as
supersites, which can support large numbers of predator fishes
that if reintroduced, can help restore the environmental and
economic setback inflicted by overfishing.
The work, led by former UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student Abel
Valdivia working with John Bruno, a marine biologist at UNC
College of Arts & Sciences, suggests that these supersites -
reefs with many nooks and crannies on its surface that act as
hiding places for prey (and attract predators) - should be
prioritized for protection and could serve as regional models
showcasing the value of biodiversity for tourism and other uses.
Other features that make a supersite are amount of available
food, size of reef and proximity to mangroves.
"On land, a supersite would be a national park like Yellowstone,
which naturally supports an abundance of varied wildlife and has
been protected by the federal government," said Bruno, whose
work appears in the March 1 issue of Science Advances.
The team surveyed 39 reefs across the Bahamas, Cuba, Florida,
Mexico and Belize, both inside and outside marine reserves, to
determine how much fish had been lost by comparing fish biomass
on pristine sites to fish biomass on a typical reef. They
estimated the biomass in each location and found that 90 percent
of predatory fish were gone due to overfishing.
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[center]An illustration of the relative fish biomass on reefs
varying in fishing intensity and natural capacity to support
large predatory fishes. Credit: Adi Khen [/center]
What they didn't expect to find was a ray of hope—a small number
of reef locations that if protected could substantially
contribute to the recovery of predatory fish populations and
help restore depleted species.
"Some features have a surprisingly large effect on how many
predators a reef can support," said Courtney Ellen Cox, a
coauthor and former UNC-Chapel Hill doctoral student now at the
National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. For
example, researchers believe that the Columbia Reef within the
fisheries closures of Cozumel, Mexico, could support an average
10 times the current level of predatory fish if protected.
Not long ago, large fishes were plentiful on coral reefs, but
are now largely absent due to targeted fishing. Today, predators
are larger and more abundant within the marine reserves than on
unprotected, overfished reefs. But even some of the marine
reserves have seen striking declines, largely due to lack of
enforcement of fishing regulations.
The bottom line is protection of predatory fish is a win-win
from both an environmental and an economical perspective,
explained Bruno.
"A live shark is worth over a million dollars in tourism revenue
over its lifespan because sharks live for decades and thousands
of people will travel and dive just to see them up close," said
Valdivia, now at the Center for Biological Diversity in Oakland,
Calif. "There is a massive economic incentive to restore and
protect sharks and other top predators on coral reefs."
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Agelbert NOTE: The Climate change Elephant in the room of the
above study is the FACT that Ocean Acidification is destroying
the reefs! So, that "ray of hope" for the "supersites" is
contingent on STOPPING the burning of fossil fuels. Do YOU see
that happening any time soon? Certainly NOT with fossil fuel
TOOLS like Trump, Pruitt, Tillerson, etc. et al in charge of US
energy policy.
[move]Tomorrow is Yesterday...[/move]
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Re: Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:53 pm
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[center]Threatened species in the biosphere[/center]
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"Wealthy countries have a much higher per-capita footprint, so
each person there is consuming a lot more than those in poorer
nations."
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What these scientists are ERRONEOUSLY doing is ASSUMING the SAME
AGENCY (i.e. biosphere damaging ability) to each and every human
that is alive. That is TYPICAL broad brush fragmentation of
agency (i.e. share of responsibility for the damage) that
absolves the major polluters of the massive pollution they are
responsible for.
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The biosphere math facts clearly state that less than 17% of the
human population, MOSTLY concentrated in wealthy countries, is
DOING over 80% of the damage by consuming over 80% of the
resources. Only about half (or less) of the MILITARY budgets
alone of the wealthy countries could pay for bio-remediating the
most impacted areas, stop the exploitation and care for and
educate the high population growth poor there so they become
good stewards instead of biosphere destroyers.
Since, according to the U.N., the richest 20% of the world's
population uses 80% of the resources, the 'Fragmentation of
Agency' pie chart for the damage done to the biosphere should
look like this:
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The fossil fuel industry, and almost half of the world’s 100
largest companies, want that 'Fragmentation of Agency' pie chart
to look like is as follows:
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The REAL bottom line is that less than 17% of the human
population is an existential threat to the ALL of the human
population AND a large part of macroscopic species in the
biosphere.
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> "Capitalist ideology claims that the world is perfectly
ordered and everybody is in their place (i..e. everybody gets
what they deserve). This self legitmating aspect of Capitalism
is Socially Catastrophic. This is the Victorian view of the
world." Rob Urie - Author " Zen Economics"
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Re: Species Population Biomass effects on the Biosphere
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 13, 2022, 6:55 pm
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[center]Mist hangs over the Tongass temperate rain forest in
Alaska. The Bush administration
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/>tried to undermine the Roadless Rule by exempting the Tongass
National Forest from the rule. LEEPRINCE / SHUTTERSTOCK[/center]
[center]EARTHJUSTICE
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16-YEAR-LONG
BATTLE TO PROTECT 50 MILLION ACRES OF FORESTS
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By Jessica A. Knoblauch | Thursday, September 28, 2017
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width=640]
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[center]Tom Waldo, one of the legal architects of Earthjustice's
Roadless Rule strategy, walks through a field of fireweed near
Juneau, Alaska. MICHAEL PENN FOR EARTHJUSTICE[/center]
SNIPPET:
A decades-long fight over a landmark rule protecting wild
forests nationwide took another successful–and possibly
final–turn last week after a U.S. district court threw out a
last-ditch attack by the state of Alaska against the Roadless
Rule.
Adopted in the closing days of the Clinton administration, the
Roadless Rule prohibits most logging and road construction in
roadless areas of national forests. These lands, today equaling
about 50 million acres or about the size of Nebraska, are some
of the wildest places left in America.
Upon its passage, the rule was overwhelmingly popular with the
American people, including those who like to hike, camp, fish
and recreate among the trees in wild, unmarred areas. The Forest
Service also liked the rule, since, at the time, the agency had
a multibillion-dollar backlog on maintenance for more than
400,000 miles of existing roads, and it wasn’t eager to add even
more to its workload.
Yet, despite its popularity, state political leaders with ties
to the logging and timber industries hated the new rule. Even
before President Clinton left office, they began their attack.
The Bush administration
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/>which took office just eight days later, failed to come to the
rule’s defense.
“It created this vacuum,” says Earthjustice attorney Tom Waldo,
one of the legal architects of the organization’s Roadless Rule
strategy. “So Earthjustice stepped in.”
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[center]A roadless area in the North Carolina National Forest.
MARK VAN DYKE[/center]
Full story:
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