That we are using way too much paper and plastic and throwing it everywhere. I don't know how typical this one is but when you come across more have a look and tell us what you find. Because twenty-five years ago they were made of almost 100% natural stuff. Not good.
Cruel irony: our own pollution is hampering the search for this lost bird...
ReplyDeleteAre we actually already past the tipping point of Nature's absorptive capacity?
Picture 5 and 6 here show that Nature's super builders are following the same trend everywhere else in the world. Not good at all.
ReplyDeleteAmazing animals. We just need to observe them and copy.
ReplyDeleteI'm seriously considering getting a few weaver ants to prepare samosas.
And here's why we're heading the wrong way...
ReplyDeleteAnd we'll compare these in 20 years' time and shake our heads in disbelief: how did we create this mess that we can't undo...?
Across the food chains, there is a feeling that despite the ambitious Paris COP21 talks it will only be about wishful thinking, whilst something is happening that is of such a large magnitude that we can perceive only rare glimpses into the process - one of them is the stranding of 337 whales, or the shrinking of glaciers.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what Nature has in store for us, but I sense that it's going to be so nasty we'll cry our eyes out for not taking heed of all these signs...
It has happened before with bees, now with butterflies' population declining, Nature is screaming at us to do something now.
ReplyDeleteToo late. The only culprit is the homo sapiens.
ReplyDeleteSame for large-scale modifications to the planet - only the timelapse view can reveal the extent of the impact. Now we're seeing that calving can happen catastrophically from within, not always from the downstream end...
ReplyDeleteNot good at all! The world is watching you, Mr Trump and your entourage of climate-change deniers...
400 more whales get stranded, while the surface of the Earth bears more and more ugly scars...
ReplyDeleteOrganisms living 10 km deep in the deepest parts of the ocean are actually accumulating 'sky high' levels of man-made contaminants...
ReplyDeleteHow he must have been laughing, the consultant guy who reassured the SWAC promoters that 'deep ocean waters don't ever mix with surface waters'...
According to The Economist by 2050 the weight of plastic in our oceans will exceed the weight of fish.
ReplyDeleteWell done homo sapiens!!!
Some hope from Mother Nature itself: a plastic-eating caterpillar. But please, don't kill that glimmer of hope with indiscriminate use of pesticides now...
ReplyDeleteWell done, Homo Sapiens: our planet's sixth cycle of extinction has begun.
ReplyDeleteWe're edging closer and closer to the dystopian scenarii depicted by science-fiction books of my youth...
Prepare to be gutted: the sea of plastic is a real thing now - it's just a question of time until one hits our shores.
ReplyDeleteA convenient checklist for counting the steps of mankind towards doom...
ReplyDeleteAnother death, same message: too much plastic, humans!!
ReplyDeleteThis thing has gone way too far, and there's no place on Earth that can be called 'pristine' now, not even the Mariana Trench...
ReplyDeleteEven the most seemingly innocuous thing is a threat - here's confirmation that research makes us take more informed decisions about our ecosystem - not only our immediate surrounding, but also the whole planet...
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