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"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but

""El colapso ya está sucediendo, aunque no seamos muy conscientes de ello" Enric Llopis Rebelión La función de la energía en el devenir histórico y la noción de colapso son dos de los argumentos centrales del libro "En la espiral de la energía", de Ramón Fernández Durán y Luis González Reyes. Coeditado por Ecologistas en Acción y Baladre, el texto de cerca de mil páginas y dos volúmenes constituye un trabajo enciclopédico que comienza en las "sociedades opulentas" del Paleolítico y termina en el colapso del sistema urbano agro-industrial civilizatorio. El colapso, noción muy vinculada a la idea de complejidad, "ya está sucediendo aunque no seamos muy conscientes de ello; desde el punto de vista de nuestras vidas, el colapso será relativamente lento, aunque en términos históricos sea muy rápido", afirma Luis González Reyes. El autor, miembro de Ecologistas en Acción, también forma parte de Garúa, cooperativa en la que trabaja en cuestiones de formación, intervención social e investigación. En FUHEM colabora para la inclusión de los temas ecosociales en el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos de tres colegios. González Reyes es además autor de "Sostenibilidad ambiental: un bien público global" (Akal) y "La política ambiental de la Unión Europea" (Ecologistas en Acción). Ha colaborado en "¿Qué hacemos frente a la crisis ecológica?" (Akal) con Jorge Riechmann, Yayo Herrero y Carmen Madorrán. -¿Qué es el Antropoceno? ¿Cuándo surge el concepto y qué quiere significarse con el mismo? El Holoceno, la etapa histórica que coincide con el inicio de la agricultura (los últimos 12.000 años), ha tocado a su fin, ya hay una nueva era geológica: el Antropoceno. El término Antropoceno fue acuñado por Crutzen en 2000. Además, la Sociedad Geológica de Londres así ha definido a esta etapa de la historia terrícola. Una sola especie, la especie humana, o mejor dicho, una élite de ella (en ese sentid

"Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue - and because we try to practice what we preach - we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Why a Low-tech Website? We were told that the Internet would "dematerialise" society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. In order to offset the negative consequences associated with high energy consumption, renewable energy has been proposed as a means to lower emissions from powering data centers. For example, Greenpeace's yearly ClickClean report ranks major Internet companies based on their use of renewable power sources."

"Because energy fuels both human development and environmental damage, policies that encourage energy demand reduction can run counter to policies for alleviating poverty, and the other way around. Achieving both objectives can only happen if energy use is spread more equally across societies. However, while it's widely acknowledged that part of the global population is living in 'energy poverty', there's little attention given to the opposite condition, namely 'energy excess' or 'energy decadence'. Researchers have calculated minimum levels of energy use needed to live a decent life, but what about maximum levels? "