LISTS OF EXTINCT ANIMALS, 19th, 20th & 21st CENTURIES

 

Dodo bird (Aves; Columbidae: Raphus cucullatus) extinct. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

By H.G. von Österreich und von Toskana

Directly or indirectly the impact of humans (Primates: Hominidae: Homo sapiens) on the planet´s biodiversity is devastating.

The following videos, a comprehensive listing of animals extinct in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, will give you an idea of the extent of this problem, in which one way or another, putting the exceptions aside, we humans have had or had something to do with it.

Obviously, the way we are going right now, devouring and squandering Earth´s limited natural resources, sooner or later we will face the same fate.

So all of us are in the waiting room!!

Here are the videos:

 

Source of videos: thy1936cyn

Extinct Animals 19th Century! (Part 1). Click here.

Extinct Animals 19th Century! (Part 2). Click here.

Extinct Animals 20th Century! (Part 1). Click here.

Extinct Animals 20th Century! (Part 2). Click here.

Extinct Animals 20th Century! (Part 3). Click here.

Extinct Animals 20th Century! (Part 4). Click here.

 

Extinct Animals 21st Century! Click here.

HUMAN GEOTRASHING: 2750 CONTAMINATED SITES IN THE ARCTIC

Arctic: 2750 contaminated sites. Source: Bois (2009).

By Gundhramns Hammer
June 7, 2015

No place on Earth escapes the impact of human activities. Not even the frozen poles.

We humans have become geotrashing agents.

As geotrashing agents, bluntly speaking, we have fucked up Earth. We have turned this planet into a waste dump.

Let us take the Arctic, for example.

Bois (2009) has reported a total of 2750 contaminated sites (Table 1) where humans have dumped different types of pollutants (Table 2) in the Arctic alone.

Table 1. Number of contaminated sites in the Arctic. Data from Bois (2009).

Country	Number of contaminated sites
Alaska (USA)	509
Canada	662
Finland	169
Greenland	468
Norway (including Svalbard)	524
Sweden	418
Russia	n/a
Total number of contaminated sites in the Arctic	2750

Table 2. Inventory of pollutants in the Arctic. Data from Bois (2009).

Type of pollutant	Number/country
	Alaska	Canada	Finland	Greenland	Norway	Sweden	Russia
Hydrocarbons	455	158	31	73	218	153	n/a
Heavy metals	108	65	18	133	363	137	n/a
POPs-PCBs	96	54	1	0	129	25	n/a
Other hazardous substances	12	25	125	22	152	78	n/a
Needs further study	4	455	2	297	159	109	n/a

POPs = Persistant organic pollutants; PCBs = Polychlorinated biphenyls; n/a = not available.

Obviously, Bois (2009) has done an excellent job investigating and recording the contaminated sites in the Arctic. It is a must to read.

Unfortunately this is not the end of man´s geotrashing line.

Things in the Arctic are bound to become even worse. 

Man´s geostrategic games are already changing in the North with the melting icecaps due to man-made global warming.

Thus, there is a rush for the Arctic.

Faced with an ever increasing mass of consumers always demanding new products in the global markets, oil and mineral companies will do their best to get the new resources to satisfy unsatisfiable customers.

For the time being and at a time when we are running out of time, it seems that our goal still is nothing but to make this beautiful planet a barren land.

How fucking stupid can Homo sapiens be?

Only time wil tell.


References

Bois R. des (2009). 2750 contaminated sites in Arctic. Polar Star Nº 2.


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THE FIFTH ESTATE: SILENCE OF THE LABS

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In the past five years the federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists, and hundreds of programs and world-renowned research facilities have lost their funding. Programs that monitored things such as smoke stack emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality and climate change have been drastically cut or shut down. The fifth estate requested interviews with two senior bureaucrats and four cabinet ministers with responsibility for resources, the environment and science. All of those requests were denied.

On Tuesday, the fifth estate received a statement from the office of Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, and the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.

"Our government has made record investments in science," it stated. "We are working to strengthen partnerships to get more ideas from the lab to the marketplace and increase our wealth of knowledge. Research is vibrant and flourishing right across the country."

But members of the scientific community disagree. CBC’s the fifth estate spoke to scientists across the country who are concerned that Canadians will suffer if their elected leaders have to make policy decisions without the benefit of independent, fact-based science.

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