Our Oceans are Under Attack

Here's More Proof Earth Is in Its 6th Mass Extinction

http://news.yahoo.com/heres-more-proof-earth-6th-mass-extinction-193123665.html

Diverse animals across the globe are slipping away and dying as Earth enters its sixth mass extinction, a new study finds.

Over the last century, species of vertebrates are dying out up to 114 times faster than they would have without human activity, said the researchers, who used the most conservative estimates to assess extinction rates. That means the number of species that went extinct in the past 100 years would have taken 11,400 years to go extinct under natural extinction rates, the researchers said.

Much of the extinction is due to human activities that lead to pollution, habitat loss, the introduction of invasive species and increased carbon emissions that drive climate change and ocean acidification, the researchers said. [7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction]

"Our activities are causing a massive loss of species that has no precedent in the history of humanity and few precedents in the history of life on Earth," said lead researcher Gerardo Ceballos, a professor of conservation ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting professor at Stanford University.

In 2014, Jenkins and his colleagues published a study in the journal Science that came to the same broad conclusions detailed in the new study, but in last year's study, they also included flowering and cone plants. That study found that current extinction rates are about 1,000 times higher than they would be without human activities.

"This latest study is further evidence of a human-induced mass extinction now underway," Jenkins told Live Science. "Much like the situation with human-caused climate change, years of research have built an enormous scientific case that humanity is driving a mass extinction. What the world’s many species now need are actions to reverse the problem."

 

7 Giant Lies About Red Meat Promoted by the Meat Industry

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/7-giant-lies-about-red-meat-promoted-meat-industry

Americans should eat less red meat and processed meat in favor of a "diet higher in plant-based foods." Committee members wrote that a red meat-based diet "has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, and energy use," compared to plant-based and Mediterranean-style diets.

This further inflamed the meat industry, yet the industry is not giving up. Here are the liest Big Meat spreads to try to subvert healthy diet advice and retain its profits.

Lie #1: There is no science linking red meat to cancer, stroke and heart attacks.

Lie #2: Meat today is "leaner" than it used to be, and better for you.

Lie #3: Meat is an ideal protein because it is "nutrient dense."

Lie #4: The salt in meat is good for you!

Lie #5: Millions of American can’t be wrong.

Lie #6: Red meat warnings violate consumer "rights."

Lie #7: The government doesn't have any business telling us how to eat!

 

Japan plans unilateral restart to Antarctic whaling in 2015, says official

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...rt-to-antarctic-whaling-in-2015-says-official

Japan says it plans to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic later in 2015 even though the International Whaling Commission says Tokyo has not proven the mammals need to be killed for research.

The IWC’s scientific committee said in a report on Friday it was not able to determine whether lethal sampling was necessary for whale stock management and conservation. In April an IWC experts’ panel made similar comments about a revised Japanese Antarctic whaling plan submitted after the international court of justice ruled in 2014 that Japan’s hunts were not truly scientific.

The IWC banned commercial whaling in 1986 but Japan continued killing whales under an exemption for research. After the ICJ’s ruling Japan sent a non-lethal expedition to the Antarctic for the 2014 season.

Japanese officials said on Friday they will submit additional data to support their argument. They said Japan still plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic this winter season.

Under Tokyo’s revised proposal for the upcoming whaling season it plans to catch 333 minke whales each year between 2015 and 2027, about one-third of what it has previously targeted.

Japan’s actual catch has fallen in recent years in part because of declining domestic demand for whale meat. Protests by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd also contributed to the lower catch.

The Japanese government has spent large amounts of tax money to sustain whaling operations.

 

Sea change shows the way

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11468084

Since becoming New Zealand's first marine reserve in 1975, Goat Island has proven to be worth its weight in gold - and snapper.

The 518ha area at Leigh, officially known as Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve, has provided scientific researchers, snorkellers and divers with a thriving marine ecosystem to observe. It's also played a major role in helping restore balance to the waters around it, through its large stocks of snapper and crayfish and replenished kelp forests.

"It shows what can change if we leave areas of the sea alone," says Tom Trnski, head of natural sciences at Auckland Museum.

Before Goat Island became a no-take zone, kina had left barrens - rocks scoured clean of all life, especially seaweed. "Now these seaweeds are apartment blocks for many different species - there's incredible diversity," Trnski says. "Snapper and crayfish are thriving. Fatter, older and larger snapper produce many more eggs. Our reserves supply eggs and larvae to the waters around them, making a much greater contribution than fish from outside the reserve."

Goat Island is one of five marine reserves within the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, stretching over 1.2m ha, but only 0.3 per cent of the gulf is protected from fishing.

Reports on the "State of Our Gulf" over the past five years have been murky. Snapper populations are just 19 per cent of stocks before human fishing - well below the 40 per cent aimed for to sustain future generations. Increased bottom trawling has distressed the habitat that juvenile fish like snapper need to survive.

The state of the seafloor has changed dramatically - muddy sediment has built up as Auckland has become more populated in the past 175 years. Clearing land for houses, heavy metals from industry, forestry erosion and fertiliser run-off from farms have all contributed to the Gulf's poor health.

"If you look after an area it will recover by itself, as reserves like Goat Island, Long Bay and now Tawharanui [a marine reserve since 2011] are showing. Other places need to be given that opportunity."

 

our aceans are under attack

Which of the challengers to our survival should we start on first.
Over population.
Pollution.
Climate change.
Others..

 

If we start by stop eating animals including fish that would be the first most, such as not only the seas would recover like goat island reserve as well as lands and animal species, but humans would start to understand what conscience means, assisted by a small sacrifice of their taste buds, which is not a sacrifice in the first place and mostly eating other earthlings is the causes of their heart diseases, cancers, obesity and greed.

To consider other living earthlings then may be we can start to consider our own species "starving humans" while others get fat while worrying about how much money in the bank, but ended up dying before they manage to spend that money and wasted their lives by taking every thing they are capable of grabbing including our children's future.

 

There is a Theory that Human beings would not have developed such big and clever brain power if they had not started scavenging and eating dead animals, high protein many years ago. We could still be living in trees.

I think we might have trouble stopping animals eating each other.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how we can do what we need to do with out money?

 

Well from a start to save money is to stop global warming if we did not eat meat and strip the oceans of its life also the hospital money saved from cancer, heart disease, obesity and much more if not eat meat.

The money saved by eating a none animal diet is huge, such as much more land to grow and less crap from bulk animals, fertilizers, slaughter factories wastes and the animals Nazi concentration camps owners who many go go to church thinking their crap does not stink.

Less greed more conscience would allow more sharing of the worlds excess food that creates less starving and no wars, the money alone on no wars is a huge huge huge huge huge huge huge huge huge saving.

Humans are natural unnecessary killers, such as for sport or as they call it, for fun.

I could go on about how much money to be saved if humans used conscience correctly and not slaughter other earthlings when they is no need to, and as far as meat eating expanding brains its said we only use a mere fraction of it because we are to busy with greed and materialisms and can not see past a $1, this so called extra intelligence is not working very well is it ?.

 

The future of food: Lab-grown meat and 3D-printed meals

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/f...ure-of-food-labgrown-meat-and-3dprinted-meals

In 15 years' time, there's a chance some of the beef you consume will have been grown in a test tube. The cow never would have had a beating heart, nor a brain, nor would it have seen a paddock or a feedlot. It would just be a bunch of cells and tissue.

Not in 100 years, not 50 years, but 15 years. Perhaps even less. Known as "cultured meat" it's just one of the ways scientists are trying to solve a very global problem. Namely: how do you feed a population that doesn't stop expanding when there's a finite amount of farmable land in the world?

Meat, particularly grain-fed beef, is also a massive contributor to global warming. Thanks to factors like methane emission, deforestation to create more grazing land and the amount of energy it takes to harvest corn and other grains for feed, the livestock industry produces more greenhouse emissions than every mode of transport on earth combined.

The bottom line is if we keep eating meat in the manner we do and don't invest in more sustainable farming solutions, the world as we know it is likely to end. This isn't hyperbole. And scientists the world over are working on some far-out solutions that are close to becoming real.

Cultured meat

If we all started eating more vegetables grown with solar power instead of fossil-fuel draining livestock, things would start to turn around for the environment in a big way. Unfortunately, experts say world meat consumption shows no sign of slowing and demand for it is expected to increase 73 per cent by 2050, even though 70 per cent of farmland is already used for livestock.

Test tube meat could be a solution to the globe's insatiable appetite for protein. In 2013, Professor Mark Post, of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, presented a burger made of cultured beef to an audience in London. Made using stem cells harvested from a cow's shoulder, the burger took three months to grow and, by all reports, tasted much like a normal burger, if a little less juicy

According to the Maastricht University's website, cells taken from just one cow could produce 175 million burgers

I expect cultured meat to be available in 10-15 years," says Canberra-based science writer and author Julian Cribb. "It is likely to catch on as it will be cheaper, use far fewer resources such as water, land, nutrients and pesticides, and can in theory be tailored to the precise dietary requirements of the individual. Synthetic clothing is already universal and food is likely to follow."

 

our aceans are under attack

Personally, I would love to do with out meat based food but I see a big battle ahead that can not be won by any means other than Natures way of intervening which is going to be very unpleasant.
Human beings will not change their ways.

 

Yes its sad to see dogs eaten as I have witnessed many dogs slaughtered on the streets while living in China such as watching a dog have its jaws taped up then a rope round its neck and placed over a pipe from the air-condition unit, then hung up and left to strangle, later cutting it up in front of the customers siting at tables out side similar to French coffee shop.

How ever it is no different than killing a pig or any other animal as the neighbors hens and rooster that roam over my section in Thailand, I enjoy their company and from what I have gathered they enjoy mine.

Dog meat is slowing go out of fashion where I live in China as many now own dogs as pets, the owners fall in love with their dogs and understand something is not right about eating something you can love or have compassion for.

I look at Greenpeace volunteers as hypocrites because most still eat meat and have double standard's while barking up the wrong tree where the Sea Shepard volunteers are vegetarians who stick to their values and practice what they preach.

 

Global warming is totally a lie liberals tell to distract us from their commie agendas | The Guardian

 

"If we could convince the Chinese that Jihadists’ testicles are an aphrodisiac,
in 10 years they could be extinct ... "

 

Good One Brian..................

 

Hey brian, Do you mean that the Chinese would be extinct or Jihadists?
Either way could be a good result for population relief.