Humanity – The Dumbest Creature on Earth?

First posted in June 2018. We’re still messing up the habitability of the planet big time.

In just over 200 years of our supposedly greatest revolution, the industrial revolution, this is an example of what that wonderful convenient lifestyle that we all live has delivered to the multitude of other lifeforms that share this planet with us. The lifeforms that we are driving to extinction because we as a species are basically dumb.

Take a look at your lifestyle and its convenience because if you and I don’t change we will enjoy the benefits of how we live, a very dead world in terms of diversity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44579422#

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“I’m going to buy a small piece of land”. How many have thought that or heard that or done that? – Environmental loading 6

I posted this in March of 2021 and as far as I can tell we humans are still taking more of the world’s dry surface and not less as we should be doing. Our footprint is very far from natural.

2nd March 2021

I’ve heard it in conversation and also have known people who have done it and it’s perhaps one of the heights of the human centric view, at least the Western view that we can actually buy and own land.

Back in 1800 or so there were 1,000,000,000 human primates and in 2021 there are 7,800,000,000 and still growing. In 2020, just 366 short days, despite deaths through the corona virus, wars, other diseases and old age the human primate population increased in number by 80,000,000. That’s not the number of babies born that’s the additional number of babies born, the equivalent of reproducing the population of Switzerland ten times over, once a month almost.

In those two centuries or just over, those few generations have taken over more and more land, they’ve migrated, settled, destroyed forests, meadows, woods and grasslands and killed countless animals and probably wiped out innumerable species because every individual wanted a “small piece of land”. In the minds of the individual it’s just that, a “small piece of land” but scaled up and the human primate has devoured a large part of the planet. In the US alone 2% of the surface is grass, an area the size of Greece, where once forests, meadows, grasslands and woods once stood wild and that are now covered in a flat pesticide soaked green wasteland mown short using climate change generating tools.

For the sake of the planet, ecology, evolution, biological diversity individuals must stop thinking in human centric terms that they need to buy a “small piece of land”.

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Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

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Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

“I’m going to buy a small piece of land”. How many have thought that or heard that or done that? – Environmental loading 6

I’ve heard it in conversation and also have known people who have done it and it’s perhaps one of the heights of the human centric view, at least the Western view that we can actually buy and own land.

Back in 1800 or so there were 1,000,000,000 human primates and in 2021 there are 7,800,000,000 and still growing. In 2020, just 366 short days, despite deaths through the corona virus, wars, other diseases and old age the human primate population increased in number by 80,000,000. That’s not the number of babies born that’s the additional number of babies born, the equivalent of reproducing the population of Switzerland ten times over, once a month almost.

In those two centuries or just over, those few generations have taken over more and more land, they’ve migrated, settled, destroyed forests, meadows, woods and grasslands and killed countless animals and probably wiped out innumerable species because every individual wanted a “small piece of land”. In the minds of the individual it’s just that, a “small piece of land” but scaled up and the human primate has devoured a large part of the planet. In the US alone 2% of the surface is grass, an area the size of Greece, where once forests, meadows, grasslands and woods once stood wild and that are now covered in a flat pesticide soaked green wasteland mown short using climate change generating tools.

For the sake of the planet, ecology, evolution, biological diversity individuals must stop thinking in human centric terms that they need to buy a “small piece of land”.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

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Pride London 2018

I meant to post these pictures before. On Saturday the 7th of July we walked across Hyde Park. British Summer Time was on and I wanted to hear Editors as they were one of the bands playing that day. As they were fourth from the top of the bill I thought that they would be on about 6pm. How wrong I was and luckily when we were passing they were just starting to play. I think it was 3:30 or 4pm. We sat outside and heard them play their set. Unfortunately, it was only about 40 minutes but hey it was a free concert.

After that we walked into Soho through the countless numbers celebrating Pride. Soho was heaving. Luckily at the time of us arriving the French House wasn’t that busy up stairs so we got ourselves a couple of stools at the bar near to the windows so that we could see the massive crowd outside. An amazing celebration of diversity. Caroline took these photos out of the window.

Humanity – The Dumbest Creature on Earth?

In just over 200 years of our supposedly greatest revolution, the industrial revolution, this is an example of what that wonderful convenient lifestyle that we all live has delivered to the multitude of other lifeforms that share this planet with us. The lifeforms that we are driving to extinction because we as a species are basically dumb.

Take a look at your lifestyle and its convenience because if you and I don’t change we will enjoy the benefits of how we live, a very dead world in terms of diversity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44579422#

Obese urban sprawl endangers nature

If you look at the last 50 years or so you can see where we went wrong in the UK. Instead of tall garden cities where the air is clean and people walk, cycle or use public transport to move around, we have an obese urban sprawl that often reflects the waistlines of many of the people. Where we should have built up, we have built out. More little boxes, more sterile patches of mown grass, more roads and of course more cars. Our whole economy is geared to producing more and consuming more in an ever increasing attack on the diversity of nature. Whereas we could plan and work near we live everybody needs a car to get a decent job. Just check the motorways on any given morning. This pollution and waste of people’s lives could have all been avoided if we had designed a better built environment. If we are not careful our country may still be green but a green dessert devoid of diversity.

Mammals under threat in the UK