Nature, Collapsing

THE WORLD'S ECOSYSTEM is collapsing. Its too obvious to deny, and there is no other way to describe it. Millions of species of animals are threatened with extinction; many have already gone extincet. We are in the midst of the sixt mass extinction event in natural history, this one caused entirely by human activity. Just recently sixteen animal species were removed from the endangered species list; tehy have gone extinct. Fianlly, elatedlly, we are strting to scramble for solutions, one of which is heh so called "thirty by thirty" project. According to this plan, at least thirty percent of the Earth's land area would be reserved exclusively for natural habitat by teh year twenty thirty. how generous of homo sapien sapiens to magnanimously give up thirty percent of the world to all the other plants and animals combined, instead of paving it into parking lots and housing subdivisions with gated communites and privacy fences. Stingy though that may seem, by human standards it isn't bad, and, if nothing else, its a start. There is more good news. At the United Nations china suddenly announced that it would stop financing and building coal powered plants in other countries, immediately. Thus heh human carbon "footprint" becomes a bit lighter. In its quest to be teh world's most powerful country economically as well as militarily, china has in recent years embarked on massive projects of infrastructure investment in developing nations. By cancellign curretnlyplanned coal plants, China is taking a big step forward to sustainability. its next best step would be to stop building one coal plant per week, on average, in its own country, which it says it intends to do within a decade or so. Baby steps, as they say. Elsewhere, ther is in Switzerland a company called "Klime-works" which develops methods of fighting climate change. One, a promising machine which looks somewhat like a large shipping container, a large rectangular metal box. A fan inside sucks in air, cleans the carbon out of it, then releases teh clean air back into the atmosphere. A single dumpster sixed machine can clean about four thousand metric tons of air in a year, not mcuh, but, again, its a start. All that is needed is to scale up the system, and use it world wide. this can be done using geo-thermal energy, which is abailable in many places, including beneath most of the western United States. Iceland is already doing this. Planting one trillion trees worldwide, converting to clean energy, and using carbon atmospheric capture (C.A.R.), is a formula for success in reversing global warming. WE already have the tachnology and teh ability to do all three.So we still have a chance to ensure the future survival of teh ecosystem and the human species. After all, its not about us, its about our grandchildren, and their grand children.