Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Eileen Crist: There's a Fungus Among Us: Some 4 million estimated species but only 150,000 species known to science

  So as an example, roughly 150,000 fungi species have been described, but recent research is indicating that there could be as many as four or five million fungi species. We don't even know the majority of species of fungi, let alone their ecological roles and their relationships.

https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/eileen-crist 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955040/ 

 And now, here I'd like to share some stats from a Nature paper that was published in 2020. In 1900, the technosphere was 3% of Earth's total biomass. Biomass is the weight of all living things. So the technosphere was 3% of that. In 2020, the mass of human-made objects exceeds the weight of all living things on Earth. Buildings and infrastructures weigh more than all the world's trees and shrubs. The mass of plastic is double the biomass of animals.

 https://www.wbcsd.org/vision-2050/

 Vision 2050: Time to Transform sets a shared vision of a world in which more than 9 billion people are able to live well, within planetary boundaries, by 2050. There's currently over 300 million people in Africa and Asia facing famine from global warming drought - in SubSaharan Africa. What's the the World Business Council for Sustainable Development doing about that? what a joke. "Communities in Africa face a race against the clock: Over 150 million - the daily existence behind that number is bleak. But there is hope. " Mar 4, 2024 — 27.4 million people in southern Africa will face hunger in the next six months due to poor harvests following a series of 14 extreme droughts within the past ...

I just emailed the below to Vision 2050. thanks, drew 
(the interviewer Nate Hagens has taught at University of Minnesota and he lives nearby the St. Croix River - so close to us).
You are mentioned as adopting this tipping points model. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com exposes the arctic crisis is much worse than people realize. There's 1200 gigatons of pressurized methane in the world's largest ocean shelf - the East Siberian Arctic Shelf. Just a 50 gigaton outburst will double atmospheric temperatures.
The Aerosol Masking Effect is twice as bad as previously thought as Daniel Rosenfeld's research group proved. James Hansen now emphasizes the Aerosol Masking effect as the leading cause of temperature increase. This means the more we convert to renewable energy the hotter the temperatures will get.
Only Algae can sequester 100 gigatons of CO2 emissions a year! Please support Raffael Jovine's Brilliant Planet business plan of near ocean algae farms that can sequester 10 gigatons per year and Sir David King's deep ocean algae plan that can sequester 40 gigatons of CO2 per year!
thanks,
drew hempel, MA

 

 

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