The inter connectivity of EVERYTHING

[Mailman]

Due to our human drive for short-term profits we are ruining each other's lives, our own lives, the ecosystems we rely on. But the biggest consolation is that whatever we do, Earth will survive. I get sick and fed up with people banging on about the need to save the planet, Earth will survive. And ecosystems will bounce back after humanity dies out.

I have talked about this before. In the history of our world, there have been five mass extinction events , each one wiped out 75% of all life on earth. Many scientists believe ( as do I ) that we are in the midst of the sixth event. I believe that on a planetary time scale the reign of humans will be extraordinarily short. Our success will be our undoing. Enjoy your time on the planet fellas……we are all just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

The Sixth Mass Extinction
Many experts consider our planet to be in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event. Unlike the previous five, which were caused by massive natural catastrophes and geological shifts, this current biodiversity crisis is primarily driven by human activity. Key causes include:

• Habitat Destruction: Widespread deforestation and land conversion for industrial agriculture and urbanization.
• Climate Change: Rapid warming of the planet and rising sea levels disrupting ecosystems.
• Overexploitation: Unsustainable fishing, hunting, and harvesting of wildlife

Key Findings on Accelerated Extinction:

• Rapid Decline: Biodiversity is declining rapidly, with an estimated 1 million species now at risk of extinction.
• Faster Than Natural Rates: Extinction rates are tens to hundreds of times faster than they would be without human influence.
• Recent Accelerations: A study published in Science highlights that modern extinction rates have spiked sharply over the past 200 years, corresponding to industrialization.
• Specific Group Declines: Amphibians, in particular, show a rapidly accelerating rate, with over 100 species likely disappearing since 1980.
• Population Loss: Over 237,000 individual populations of endangered species have disappeared since 1900, indicating that species are losing the geographical range needed for survival.

 

[gunk]

George got sick of it too.

 

[gggGary]

Standard Chartered CEO, Bill Winters; "company’s layoffs of thousands of people will replace “lower-value human capital” with AI."

In these hard times it's good to know the company will value those that brought them to the table.

 

[Mailman]

Standard Chartered CEO, Bill Winters; "company’s layoffs of thousands of people will replace “lower-value human capital” with AI."

In these hard times it's good to know the company will value those that brought them to the table.

I had read that META was also replacing thousands of their workers with AI. The bloodshed has begun.

 

[Grimly]

Good, to much population already, something has to change for earth to survive.

Oh, I suspect the Earth will get on just fine without us.

 

[gunk]

Oh, I suspect the Earth will get on just fine without us.

If we could all skim off the SCUM that has risen to the top,We'd be Fine as would mother earth.

 

[650Skull]

If we could all skim off the SCUM that has risen to the top,We'd be Fine as would mother earth.

Who defines who or what that scum is?

 

[gggGary]

Who defines who or what that scum is?

Literally a nation's citizens...

 

[650Skull]

Gotta disagree on that.

Any more comment becomes political. 1776 reasons your wrong

 

[John Regular]

I had read that META was also replacing thousands of their workers with AI. The bloodshed has begun.

At the data center that I occasionally do work (construction ) there really aren't that many employees to begin with. As far as I can tell it's mostly security an d cleaning staff. The largest threat I see is the massive amounts of heat released from the servers blowing out exhaust vents in the roof averaging about 110 degrees F and that's while the server rooms are being cooled by, you'll never guess. evaporating water. They basically take the intake air and run it through giant swamp cooler like evaporators. Hallways with filter material going from floor to ceiling with water cascading down them cool the air entering the server rooms. Claims have been made that they have nothing to do with local farm wells going dry, FB cares about the environment. After they blasted the bedrock into a workable surface and built the buildings they went and planted native grasses and shrubs and last week brought in sheep to help maintain the landscaping naturally without using gas powered machinery. No shit, here's a picture of one of our foreman after a coworker used AI to depict him wearing velcro gloves trying to catch one of said sheep Did I mention that I work with meatheads?