Recently there has been talk again about meteors that will pass very close to planet Earth. Thoughts go to that series of catastrophic films in which a handful of brave people engage in a fight against time to save the planet, or part of it, from destruction from space. True ...
Recently there has been talk again about meteors that will pass very close to planet Earth. Thoughts go to that series of catastrophic films in which a handful of brave people engage in a fight against time to save the planet, or part of it, from destruction from space.
True is that some space bolides have approached with their orbits, others are expected.
A perception of the immanent danger linked to the speed with which this manifests itself and is divulged. The timing comes to define the danger thresholds months, if not a few years in advance.
Let us consider instead what happens every day, the one whose evolution we hardly perceive.
Today a small insect disappears in the southern continent, tomorrow a fungal flora becomes extinct in the Indian subcontinent.
A small mammal overwhelmed by the random import into its habitat of a predator succumbs and extinguishes.
What do these events have in common? Apparently little if anything. There is one small thing, though. Their extinctions were detected by man, noted in the great book of animal and plant species.
As an accountant, man notes and finds that the extinct species are much more numerous than those that appear in the limelight of life on the planet, caught by a doubt he goes to consult the balance sheets of the previous years, of the previous century until this kind of annotation began to be collected.
And he verifies that already five times the number of species has decreased with this type of acceleration, at the moment when the great mass extinctions began. We are at the beginning of a new mass extinction of life on earth. Going to see what were the determining elements of the previous ones we find natural causes (change in the composition ratios of atmospheric gases, the fall of a meteor, glaciations, colossal volcanic eruptions...), but today ?
If we consider man as a natural element it is disconcerting to realize that it is his work to be anthropomorphous and his badly managed inventions developed in the last 200 years. Rising temperatures, melting ice, invasive changes to all the green lungs on the planet; what else? The overpopulation that will accelerate the demand for all those resources and products that constitute the modern civilization of homo sapiens. Already many scholars have launched warnings about the dangers of climate change; they have left a little implicit, not obvious, the responsibility that man has in the extinction of both plant and animal habitats and species.
Like a frog, put in a pot of water on the fire, man will really become aware that the water is too hot to allow life, too late, too late.
Most likely the next E.L.E (Extintion Level Event) will not be a meteor, but an A.E.M. (Anthropic Event Method) by man.
Detect, see, disseminate, learn, defend, we only have this planet (at the moment).
