tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22677739420564322052024-02-06T19:37:24.571-08:00ExtinctExistAs the 6th mass extinction unfolds before our eyes, humanity comes to terms with the trade offs of modern living and what this implies for the future of the Earth. Here we attempt to open up the concepts and purvey the issues covered lyrically in ExtinctExist with info, pics and links to compliment DEMO MMXIII and new material as it evolves.ExtinctExisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15838672728095122072noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267773942056432205.post-26365232303310211992013-07-12T23:14:00.003-07:002013-07-23T00:02:10.578-07:00Scourge Amazonia (2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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most biodiverse regions of the world are being exploited for resources and none
more profound than that of the Amazon in South America. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Pic 1:</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"> Ridiculously amazing view (pic stolen from </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://itsabeautifulearth.com/2011/06/04/why-you-should-save-the-amazon-rainforest/">itsabeautifulearth.com</a>)</span></div>
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largest tropical rainforest stretching across 9 countries and encompasses half
the world’s rainforests. So species rich is the Amazon basin it contains a 10<sup>th</sup>
of the worlds known species (WWF 2013) and yet it is being blitzed by
deforestation. Land clearing makes way for massive cattle stations and crops
such as <a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2009/update86">soy beans grown for human consumption</a> and ironically to feed the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/apr/02/conservationandendangeredspecies.internationalnews">Brazilian cattle which then finds its way to the tables of Europeans, Russians, </a></span></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/apr/02/conservationandendangeredspecies.internationalnews" style="font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 13px;">Eygptians</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/apr/02/conservationandendangeredspecies.internationalnews" style="font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 10pt;"> and to the Middle East</a><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 10pt;">. So
the demand for Brazilian beef in the Old World is responsible for the
deforestation of the New. What an incredibly energy expensive way to put beef
on the plates of Westerners.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Pic 2:</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"> Image predicting the extent of forested vs. deforested areas within the Amazon in 2050 if deforestation continues at its current rate (pic stolen from <a href="http://www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Soares-Filho-et-al.-Nature-20061.pdf">Soares-Filho <i>et al. (</i>2006). Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin. <i>Nature </i><b>440: </b>520-523</a>).</span></div>
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centre (<a href="http://worldwildlife.org/places/amazon">90-140 billion metric tons (WWF 2013)</a>) which as it loses its capacity
to store atmospheric carbon and is thus released through deforestation becomes
a contributor to the Greenhouse Effect and a rise in global temperatures. The
Amazon also contributes approximately <a href="http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/teacher_resources/best_place_species/current_top_10/amazon_rainforest.cfm">20% of the planets atmospheric oxygen (WWF2013)</a> which just reiterates the point that we are one immensely stupid species.
So to bring all these points together the message is clear... WE ARE EATING
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 10pt;">Keep feeding...
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 11.5pt;">We are losing
species before we even know they exist. Since Linnaeus and Darwin, humanity has
been trying to document the plethora of life forms on the planet but it comes
as no surprise that we will probably never know the full extent of how diverse
the global biosphere is. <a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127">There are only estimates with huge margins of error</a> and we are still finding species in some of the most remote and biodiverse regions of the world (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21746237">PNG</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/lake-vostok-life-antarctica-ice-thousands-species-dna_n_3565892.html">Antarctica</a>). However, worldwide there is a <a href="http://earthjournalism.net/story/lack-taxonomists-hinders-biodiversity-protection">lack of taxonomists</a> to describe newly found species especially for
Kingdom Fungi and unfortunately a lack of funding is one of the biggest
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Lyrically we’ve attempted to capture this idea with of course the tree of life (<a href="http://tolweb.org/tree/learn/concepts/whatisphylogeny.html">phylogeny</a>) and worship of trees (dendrolatry) to paint a picture complimented with a grand
tapestry to reference the attempt to describe every living species and their evolutionary relaionships. </span></span></span><br />
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saying in biology, “Extinction is the Rule,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 11.5pt;">not</span></i><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the Exception", and even though historically this has been the case we owe the 6th
known mass extinction period which we are currently experiencing to the subspecies <i>Homo sapiens sapiens</i>.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxsuLSwvsU"><span style="font-family: "fzm Old Typewriter"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watch: ExtinctExist - </span>Extinctio in Ignorantia (Live at Such is Life 2013, Goongerah, Victoria)</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">For interests sake:</span><br />
<a href="http://conservationbytes.com/">Conservation Bytes</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Ilovebiodiversity?fref=ts">I fucking love biodiversity (Facebook page)</a></div>
ExtinctExisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15838672728095122072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2267773942056432205.post-60067258287496917012013-07-06T01:36:00.003-07:002013-07-23T00:09:15.453-07:00Kings Fall (2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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Australia from 1788, there was a God-given, blinkered perception that the
forests and woodlands of the mainland’s Eastern Seaboard, Tasmania and
South-Western Australia were an inexhaustible bounty. New Holland as it was
known was also seen as an unruly place, untamed and where the Devil roamed,
seen through European eyes it was a far cry from the lush green pastures of the
mother land. With this in mind a campaign was founded to “acclimatise” the land
so too that England could further its boundaries, augmenting the alien
landscape to a more familiar terrain to be freely colonised.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flowering plant in the world, hence the species name which in Latin refers to
the regal or kingly nature of their lordship over the mountain forests. The
tallest recorded was found in the Watts River region of Victoria around 1871,
an alleged 132.6 metres, however this has been disputed as an unreliable
account and a specimen felled in Thorpdale (Vic) measured on the ground at 114.3
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; text-align: justify;">The ecology of these cool temperate forests is
temporally dynamic. Mountain Ash live for approximately 400 years and as
patches of forest dominated by this species move further through time unscathed
by fire, the forest structure moves into a mixed rainforest of </span><a href="http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/LJEM-7CV742/$FILE/Nothofagus%20cunninghamii%20Notesheet.pdf"><i style="font-family: 'fzm Old Typewriter'; text-align: justify;">Nothofagus cunninghamii </i><span style="font-family: fzm Old Typewriter;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(Myrtle Beec</span></span></a><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: fzm Old Typewriter;"><a href="http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/LJEM-7CV742/$FILE/Nothofagus%20cunninghamii%20Notesheet.pdf">h)</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherosperma"><i>Atherosperma moschatum </i>(Southern Sassafras)</a> with a much lower density of Eucalypt species.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Lyrically it's initially drawn from the phenomenon of </span><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287049/industrial-melanism">Industrial Melanism</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> which saw the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth">Peppered Moth (<i>Biston betularia</i>)</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> undergo a rapid </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution">evolution</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (through </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection">selection</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) due to soot depositing from nearby factories, blackening the white trunks of Birch (</span><i style="color: #cccccc;">Betula </i><span style="color: #cccccc;">sp.) trees in England. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Pic 1 (left):</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"> Soot covered Birch trees lacking lichen colonies camouflaging the black morph while the white morph is starkly contrasted and </span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Pic 2 (right):</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"> showing the opposite. (pics stolen from<a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287049/industrial-melanism"> Encyclopaedia Britannica</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pic 3: </b><a href="http://extinctexist.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxiii">ExtinctExist - Demo MMXIII</a> artwork/logo by <a href="http://www.justseeds.org/artists/santiago_armengod/">Santiago Armengod</a>. Although inspired by the story of the Peppered Moth, the image is actually drawn from from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acherontia_atropos">Death's-head Hawkmoth (<i>Acherontia atropos</i>)</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="http://extinctexist.bandcamp.com/track/exhaled-2">Listen: Bandcamp (Demo MMXIII)</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><br /></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofj1vIQj4eM">Watch: ExtinctExist - Exhaled (Live at Such is Life 2013: Goongerah, Victoria)</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.justseeds.org/artists/santiago_armengod/">Art: <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Santiago Armengod</span>: Justseeds Artist Cooperative</a></div>
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