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Omnicide - the killing of
everything
We may never ascertain with any degree of
certainty whether Mars was once a living planet, teeming with life like
her 'sister' planet, Earth. If indeed there was life on Mars, how did it
end? By how long, if any, did the fiercest group within her
dominant species outlast all others before they became extinct? How
did the last 10 years unfold on Mars?
Make no mistake: The 'Marsification' of our planet Earth is well underway.
As we drive our planet toward omnicide, we pull the manmade mask of death
unceremoniously over her face. The look on her face would probably be not
unlike the cold, silent glare of her lifeless sister Mars.
1. A small band of evil International gangsters, that controls the world's
banking system and money supply, education and the news media, corrupt
judges, politicians, policymakers, and large mindless military forces
armed with weapons of mass destruction, are driving the world to the
brink of imminent collapse with total disregard for the
sanctity of life.
2. Having blocked all sustainable economic, social and political models,
the system of political economy and the exponential growth culture are accelerating the Earth's life-support systems (ecosystems)
to the verge of imminent collapse. It takes only a
fractional increase in humans' ecological footprints to destroy life on
Earth—a scenario which is unfolding before our eyes.
The
Old Riddle
The famous French riddle for children[1] describes the collapse: We have a
pond on which water lilies grow doubling in number everyday. It takes 30
days for the lilies to cover the pond completely and suffocate the fish
and other life forms in the water.
On what day do we forfeit our last chance to react? The answer, of course,
is the 29th day. The following day, the 30th day, the lilies completely
cover the pond.
Exponential systems do not allow much reaction time. The problem may not
seem strikingly obvious for a long time. As late as the 24th day the
lilies cover only 1/64th of the pond and on the 25th day 1/32nd, a
seemingly insignificant portion of the pond. Even on the 29th day one-half
of the pond looks deceptively safe.
Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis
We have now reached the final hour of the '29th day.' Our exponentially
growing ecological footprint has pushed at least 15 of the 24 ecosystems
(about 2/3 of all ecosystems) vital for supporting life to the verge of
collapse including fresh water, fisheries, air and water purification
systems, and the systems that regulate climate, natural hazards, and
pests.
This is
our last chance
to react. Tomorrow, the 30th day, the 'lilies' would cover our 'pond'
completely and choke us all to death.
Index of Human Impact on Nature (HIoN)
As of March 2007, the MSRB Index of Human Impact on Nature (HIoN),
an index for calculating the full impact of human consumption and
activities on the Earth's life support systems, stands at a terminally
high level of 171.40. That is, the full human impact including his
ecological footprint and the damage inflicted on the living environment by
his activities in the 12-month period ending March 2007 was 71.4 percent
higher than the planet in its current state can cope with.
According to HIoN projections, by as early as 2015, our cities and
population centers would become mostly unsustainable.
There is no polite way of saying that we are devouring our
children. To prevent omnicide on Earth, humans must reduce their energy
consumption from its currently unsustainable [read
terminal] levels of about 531EJ (estimated global consumption for 2007) billion billion joules[3]
to about 60EJ (6e+19joules) each year.
Let us give life a chance. Let us start restoring the dying ecosystems
where possible. Perhaps we could save a segment of the future for a small
number of our children instead of devouring all of the future generations.
Stop Omnicide Campaign! is commencing. Email
Campaign for details of how you can join in the activities.
The mechanisms by which humans are causing the wholesale destruction of
life on Earth:
1. Destroying the atmosphere. Human activity is responsible for ozone
depletion (ozone holes). Ozone depletion is exposing the biosphere to
higher levels of UV radiation (UVA and UVB) that reach the Earth’s
surface and pose the biggest threat to life-support mechanism, the already
collapsing ecosystems. [Worst affected areas:
New Zealand
,
Australia
, tip of S. America; and by 2009
Canada
, northeast US, northern Europe, northeast
China
and northern
Japan
.)
2. Consuming excessive energy. All human activities require the
conversion and consumption of energy. The rate of conversion/consumption
of energy is directly proportional to the poisoning of our biosphere. The
more energy converted and consumed, the more toxic substances released
into the biosphere. In most cases where the damage to life support systems
is already extensive, the destruction of ecosystems increases
exponentially against any linear increase in human activity.
3. Polluting the air we breathe, the water we drink and the soil we eat.
Pumping toxic substances (industrial, agricultural and municipal)
including NOX, SOX, heavy metals, chemicals, petrochemicals, biological
and radionuclide poisons other synthetic poisons, pollutants, and heat
into the biosphere is creating a terminal toxic syndrome on Earth.
4. Depleting the supplies of fresh water. Humans are interfering with the
hydro cycle by squandering large quantities of freshwater, depleting the
water supplies and preventing aquifers from recharging. Water that
naturally seeps through the ground to restore the aquifers is instead
diverted through roads, roofs, ducts and canals causing flash floods and
surface run-off.
5. Transforming our planet into a desert (Desertification). Human
activities are causing desertification or the degradation of land in vast
areas of our planet causing loss of biodiversity and loss of productive
capacity. The demand to grow more crops and graze more animals is
increasing the rate of desertification exponentially. Each year
desertification claims about six million hectares of productive land, an
area nearly the size of
West Virginia
. Land degradation affects about 2 billion hectares of land in more than
110 countries, with arable land being lost at 30-40 times the
historic rate.
6. Producing acid rain. Acid rain is a serious environmental problem that
affects most of the industrialized world, as well as other regions. Acid
rain contributes to acidification of rivers, streams and lakes killing
fish and other marine creatures. Acid rain also causes forest damage,
accelerates weathering in carbonate rocks and hastens building weathering.
7. Depleting the natural resources. Human consumption of natural resources
already exceeds the planet's productive capacity depleting the Earth's
natural capital rapidly [see HIoN above.] Increasingly, more lives would
be lost due to food, water and energy scarcity.
8. Heating the earth (releasing excessive greenhouse gasses in the
atmosphere). Large volumes of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses and
pollutants released from the excessive consumption of fossil fuels are
cooking our planet melting glaciers and ice contributing to the rise in
sea levels.
9. Increasing the size, number, and intensity of dead zones. The
application of vast quantities of fertilizers to agricultural land each
year corresponds to the increase of dead zones in the coastal waters
killing off fish, other marine creatures and aquatic living systems.
[Worst affected areas: seas of Europe, east coast of the
United States
and large areas off the coasts of
New Zealand
,
Australia
,
China
and elsewhere.]
10. Driving the ecosystems to the verge of imminent collapse. Our exponentially
growing ecological footprint has pushed at least 15 of the 24 ecosystems
(about 2/3 of all ecosystems) vital for supporting life to the verge of
collapse including fresh water, fisheries, air and water purification
systems, and the systems that regulate climate, natural hazards, and
pests.
11. Interfering with the nature's reproductive cycles. It is becoming
increasingly evident that the genetic engineering technology is
intrinsically unsafe and unreliable both in agriculture and in medicine.
From the purely social and political viewpoints, the dangers of genetic
engineering include increased economic inequality and totalitarian control
over the populace via large-scale eugenic programs.
12. Promoting the spread of virulent disease pandemics. The weakened
ecosystems are increasingly less effective in preventing disease.
Unstoppable disease pandemics (both natural and manmade) would be a
serious threat to humans and other animals.
13. Contributing to the extremes of climatic conditions. Exacerbated by
Global Heating and failing ecosystems, hurricanes, droughts, extreme rain
events... will pose serious threat to the safety of humans and other life
forms.
14. Clear cutting our forests (deforestation). About 13 million hectares
of the world's forests are lost due to deforestation each year.
Although, the net rate of forest loss is reduced by plantation of new
forests natural expansion of existing forests, this comes as no
consolation to possibly as many as 27,000 species that inhabit the
“old” forests. The global net loss of forest cover (natural forests
and plantations) was about 125.5 million hectares between 1990 to 2005 an
area 3 times the size of California
. This represents an average net loss of about 8.4 million hectares each
year during the reported period.
15. Transforming planet Earth into a gigantic landfill. Each year we are
converting about 60 trillion pounds of materials to garbage. As we
continue to stuff our planet with more garbage, the landfills rapidly
engulf us. Meanwhile, the human and wildlife habitats keep on
shrinking.
16. Manufacturing weapons. The so-called Military-Industrial Complex in
the
United States
and the “Big Money” racketeers that own or control them are the
largest and the most powerful terrorist organization in the world.
In the last two generations alone, their nefarious weapons have killed
more people than were ever slaughtered in the previous 5,700 years of
recorded history.
17. Waging wars. The psychopathology of predatory mutant humanoids, HIVE,[2]
is geared on the annihilation of most life forms on Earth, even at the
cost of wholesale destruction of the planet’s ecosystem. This
creates ideal opportunities for the arms trade. The war racketeers profit
from selling arms and by waging wars. People pay the ultimate price by
sacrificing their old and young.
18. “Profiting” from a predatory economic system. Billions for the
banker debt slavery for the people. Capitalism, the cannibalistic system
of economy, has transformed Earth from a life base to a ticking time
bomb!]
19. Creating social conflicts. Increasingly, social conflicts caused by
inequality and uneven distribution of resources would play a major role in
undermining the security of the population centers throughout the world.
20. Conducting and condoning unethical behavior. Unsustainable lifestyles,
population mobility, overconsumption, and human possessions are
overwhelming and destroying the ecosystems.
21. All of the above mechanisms combined!
Stop
Omnicide on Earth!
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Omnicide
Campaign! is commencing.
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Notes:
1. The lily pond
riddle is also quoted by Donella Meadows in Beyond the Limits.
2. HIVE: The Homo Ignarus Vulgus Exitiabilis. The HIVE genus are the
ignorant, destructive mobs comprising mainly of psychopathic men and
women. See http://www.restorative-business.org/stop_burning_earth.htm
3. A 100-watt light bulb uses 100 joules of energy each second when
“on,” or 360,000joules each hour. However to supply the bulb with
electricity for an hour, up to four time as much primary energy would be
converted, or 1,440,000joules (1.44 megajoules), depending on the fuel
type, generator, and distance from the power plant. [cf. The average gallon of
gasoline produces about 132 megajoules of
heat, or enthalpy-the primary energy being about 161 megajoules.
Created July 1, 2006
Last updated: 2008-06-15
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