Patricia Watwood - The Sixth Extinction

Unfriendly Reminder that the Sixth Mass Extinction - the one Humans Have Caused - is most similar to the End-Permian extinction in terms of causes and effects. That extinction killed 90%, possibly more, of life on earth. The main difference between the sixth and the end-Permian? The sixth is going faster. Faster usually means life has less time to adapt. We are careening towards the largest mass extinction this planet has ever seen.

I created the interior illustrations for the young reader’s adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, published by Henry Holt. I loved both versions of the book, and I learned so much illustrating these!

The Birds I Never Met | North America's Extinct Birds

Recently I looked into a number of extinct birds from all around the world, but few of them shed light on those that I would've lived alongside. Today we're "borrowing" my mom's field guide on the Birds of Eastern and Central North America to learn about those birds that I might've witnessed had I been alive only a century ago!

And as the last kauai o’o sings his duet, alone, no one will respond to his song.

The animals officially declared extinct in 2023

Think

Author: @spookyshhouse​ For: coppersunlight Afraid he might hear her thoughts, Scully confesses her feelings towards Mulder. Ao3 Link

#XFFlickedSwitch2023 24/27

i watched a youtube video about the extinction of the dodo and the comments were horrible

We don't think there's a positive ending; we think it's kind of a disaster. We feel that the most important thing we can do for the future is to preserve as many of these species as possible in museums, so that in 200, 300, or 500 years from now, people will still be able to say this is what the Earth once had. I strongly believe that.

25/02/24

thinking about how our perception of landscapes has changed over time following the increasing divide between urban and rural lifestyles but has reached a point that landscape art is borderline propaganda that leads working classes to believe our world is unchanging and rich with life when in reality these little pockets of wildlife are becoming increasingly rare and vastly less diverse. now pollution and climate change isn't going to turn the world into a barren hellscape, but it is going to mean you aren't going to see any butterflies while hiking with your kids, or smell the tea tree sting on the breeze as you walk your dog, or find a possum going through your trash at 3am, or hear the rain bird call in a storm. the future of our planet won't be gloomy and grey, but the world will forever lose some of its colours.

Do you cry at the Cincinnati Zoo Martha the Passenger Pigeon Memorial or are you Normal

What Can the Earth's Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton's Tao of Ecology

David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.

“Before intention and choice, before ideas and understanding and everything we think we know about ourselves—we love this world around us.”– David HintonTweet In what ways can ancient spiritual traditions inform our very modern environmental and ecological problems? Poet, author and translator of Chinese texts David Hinton’s passion for Taoist literature is laid out in his new book Wild Mind,…

View On WordPress

The Sixth extinction accelerates as we heat the planet and destroy habitats

The Sixth extinction accelerates as we heat the planet and destroy habitats

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/09/climate/biodiversity-habitat-loss-climate.html We are now at +1.2 C hotter than 1880. Only 0.3 C to go for catastrophe, according to environmental scientists. Well done, developed nations!

View On WordPress

txf + text posts (7/?)

(scully really needs to keep mulder on a leash)