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The Extinction of Whales.

- killed by fishing gear
- killed by ship collision
- killed by chemical pollution
- killed by hunting
- killed by plastics
- killed by microplastics
- killed by abrupt climate change
- killed by food chain disruption

Capitalism is murdering the Ocean.
1. Ocean life is being driven to extinction by human activity

2. Human activity is political

3. Politics can't be divorced from economics, which used to be called (more accurately) Political Economy

4. The dominant political/economic system? Capitalism

'Human activity in the oceans is driving many large species toward extinction, posing a threat to the wider ocean ecosystem, according to new research..

Researchers note that climate change is not the primary driver of mass extinction in the oceans'

2016
time.com/4494839/ocean-…
Staggering.

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7 out of the 13 great whale species are endangered or vulnerable including:

the blue whale
the bajii whale
the bowhead whale
the fin whale
the sei whale
the beluga whale

most critically endangered species:

vaquita
North Atlantic Right whale
grey whale orcireland.ie/world-whale-da…
Large-bodied animals: critical to ecosystems.

'Without a dramatic shift in the business-as-usual course for marine management..the oceans will endure a mass extinction of sufficient intensity and ecological selectivity to rank among the major extinctions'science.sciencemag.org/content/353/63…
The mass extinction of life in the oceans as they absorb carbon from carbon dioxide emissions (caused by human political/economic systems) is set to occur within decades:
bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/…
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Ben See
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Mangrove forests are being destroyed so quickly the whole biome is set to vanish within just a few decades.

More than 2% of mangrove forests are destroyed each year.

Nearly 50% have already been wiped out.

Extinction looms for amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds.
The mangrove biome spans over 137,760 km2 of coastal areas in 118 countries.

The largest mangrove ecosystem in the world, The Sundarbans, is under threat from human exploitation and sea level rise. ⚠️

nature.com/articles/srep2…
The worst mass dieback of mangroves ever recorded: 2015, the Gulf of Carpentaria (cause: extreme heat/temporary drop in sea level/drought).

Then, in 2018: devastating impacts of 2 cyclones created a 400km stretch of dead & damaged mangroves.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Ben See
@ClimateBen
James Hansen called Paris a hoax. I think he was right.

1/5
Most recent IPCC models show 2°C by around 2040 - total horror. Not all these new models are ready yet, but those from US, UK and France which are highly regarded all point to the same result. We should be talking about this.
2/5
The Hausfather article (heavy ecomodernist slant, zero sense of catastrophic ecological damage at 1.5- 2°C) is clear that 4°C by the 2080s or 2090s is possible.

See here:


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Ben See
@ClimateBen
Remember:

1. 98% loss of insects in the tropics
2. entomologists say crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity declines
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. habitat destruction to blame
6. also pesticides & climate change
7. humans need insects to survive

This is terrifying.
Insect collapse:

‘We are destroying our life support systems’ ⚠️

🔺A scientist returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished:
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Why don't people know about this?
It's due to manipulative education/information systems, including state/corporate media like liberal-capitalist @guardian:



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Steven Bernard
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Pollution on London's Zone 1 tube mapped for the first time. An FT investigation show's just how bad the air on the tube is. Fantastic article by @FinancialTimes' @CamillaHodgson and @lesliehook #pollution #gistribe
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Arantec Engineering
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Nick Carr
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Someone's trying to backdoor "hexcalc.exe" from GitHub and not doing a great job. Here's a quick exploration of the VT tester's 6 files, the corresponding PDB anomalies, PS1 & Cobalt Strike shellcode, and Yara #hunting rules.

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The first file tested by the VT account is hexcalc.exe
0433aeff0ed2cdf5776856f2c37be975
PDB: D:\codes\WinHexCalc\Release\hexcalc.pdb

This led me to search for the original (shady) project from Github: github.com/azlan/WinHexCa…
and this indeed contains this initial hexcalc.exe

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7feaa6255459dcba370252e8905a9a4a
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Blue Planet Society
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Let's hit Japan hard and make them rethink their decision to leave the IWC and resume whaling. Join us in protesting the @RugbyWC_2019 and @Tokyo2020. 💥🐋 @iwc_int @rugbyworldcup @Olympics
@rugbyworldcupjp @japan @JapanGov @JPN_PMO @AbeShinzo
We urge Japan to cease whaling and rejoin the IWC. Until they do, we will be officially protesting the @rugbyworldcupjp which starts on 20th Sept 2019. @Tokyo2020 will follow. Expect disruptions. Pic: @ArchieTaplin #whales #Japanwhaling
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