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Rainforests Biodiversity
Scale Of Destruction

by Mark Elsis

The Omega Point For Homo Sapiens Will Occur When
The 10% Virgin Rainforest Area 50% Rainforest Species
Safeguard Threshold Providence Is Broken In 2014

Dear Citizen of Earth              March 19, 1999 LOVEARTH was formed 10 years ago with the intent to bring awareness to the devastation which humanity is inflicting on our beautiful planet. The nearly 6 billion people living on Earth are already way beyond its carrying capacity. We are now blatantly causing more than 550 species extinctions each and every day, as well as countless other atrocities to all life sustaining ecosystems. We are but a strand in the fabric of life, all intricately interdependent on one another. And yet here we are, in the mere geological blink of an eye, eroding the very foundation of our own existence by these mass species extinctions. This 6th great extinction period on Earth that we are insanely causing by the suicidal annihilation of the Web of Life, will very soon bring about our own extinction. In 1992 a majority of the living Nobel Laureates in the Sciences agreed and signed the document World Scientist' Warning To Humanity that said, if we Homo Sapiens do not change from our destructive ways by 180 degrees right away, we will reach the Omega Point within 2 to 3 decades. The Nobel Laureates are perhaps the most intellectually aware yet grounded group of people we have on Earth and they are saying we are going to become extinct if we don't change our ways completely and change them right now. As Albert Einstein said "We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if Mankind is to survive". The Omega Point is the point in time, when all of the devastation we have inflicted over the years to our life support systems finally becomes too much and they irreversibly fail, no longer able to sustain Homo Sapiens. What this translates into for our future generations is an ever increasingly nightmarish slippery slope to extinction.   We believe that as early as 1991, because of the cumulative shortsighted destruction egregiously caused by Homo Sapiens to all life ecosystems, humanity entered a gray zone where the Omega Point may be crossed for our species at any time. We can tell you with all assurance we will pass the Omega Point somewhere very close to the year 2014. In the year 2014 we go below the 10% / 50% Safeguard Threshold Providence ( STP ). This will occur when 10% of Virgin Rainforest Area ( VRA ) with 50% of Rainforest Species ( RS ) are all that remain from what originally had been. The beautiful providence that nature safeguards, is the diversity of life itself. If we fell, level, slash and burn 90% of the VRA, only 50% of RS will go extinct. Somehow in the last 10% of VRA nature magically holds on to 50% of RS. Lucky for us, if we realize in time. We use the beauty of this built in natural threshold, as the barometer to tell us when the Omega Point for Homo Sapiens will occur. If we ever go below this 10% / 50% STP, we will become extinct. As of March 19, 1999, all that remains of the VRA is 24.43% with 58.01% of RS. The amount of VRA that is being destroyed by humanity this year alone is equal to the land area of all the following States put together: Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Maryland and South Carolina. This is almost the size of the United Kingdom. Every 2 Minutes and 40 Seconds another RS goes extinct. The Rainforests were originally home to 61.8% of all the species on Earth. That was 10,000 years ago, before our population started growing exponentially with the advent of the revolutionizing new food energy technology, called agriculture. This bleak situation of breaking the 10% / 50% STP in 2014 gets even worse when you take into account the enormous momentum of our exterminating machine. It will take about 3 to 6 years just to put the brakes on to stop it. This means that as early as the year 2008, less than 1 decade from now, if we have not given up our primitive slaughtering predator ways, well... There is yet another factor that hastens this outcome by approximately 1 more year, and that is, there is a difference between a VRA that has never been touched by man and one that was leveled a 1000 years ago. If we were to take a walk from a VRA to a Rainforest leveled 1000 years ago and left alone for the intervening years, we would not recognize the difference between them. They look very much the same to the untrained eye. Except, and this is one big exception, we now have learned in the Rainforest leveled 1000 years ago, only about 17% of the original inhabiting Species are found today. This means 83% of the original Biodiversity has still not returned. Nature takes her own time to heal and fully restore. It can take as short as one to two Million years, providing there is a favorable geological environment, for nature to rebalance and achieve full self organization restoration. Therefore when we reach the point where only 10% VRA remains, somewhere between 5% and 10% of these remaining Rainforests will not be Virgin. They will have been touched by man at sometime in the past, and will have many, many fewer species. For the 10% / 50% STP to hold true, the Rainforest Area must be 100% Virgin. So we will actually reach 50% RS remaining when there is about 11% of VRA left. This is why the projected 10% / 50% STP in 2014 will lose another year, then minus the 3 to 6 years to put the brakes on and we are now looking at the years 2007 to 2010. This leaves us as little as only 8 years to become aware and realize, before it's too late. Nothing is more important then the issue of these extinctions. We are losing the full richness of nature's beauty, each time we lose a species we lose their invaluable genetic code, their form-field in life space has vanished forever. The fabric of life is losing too many strands and is beginning to unravel. We can not survive without of this Web of Life that supports us all. What about the effects Rainforests have on the oxygen / carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle and the electromagnetic cycle? And what about all of the drug compounds to help cure diseases that are found in the Rainforest, they are forever gone with every extinction of life. What do we do to stop future plagues, when in fact, it is we who are creating them by the very destruction of the Rainforest in the first place? Mass species extinctions are creating havoc with the checks and balances found throughout nature. Plague causing life forms will run amuck and spread uninhibited up the food chain. A very quick and certain Catch-22 to Extinction for Homo Sapiens, if we let it be. We must change our ways immediately and become sustainable to leave our future generations a beautiful Earth for them to flourish upon.   Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction shows in an easy to understand way the exact scale of annihilation we humans are doing to the Rainforests. Over a 37 year span it shows year by year what percentage of Rainforests Land Area and what percentage of Rainforests Species remain. It also shows what percentage of species are going extinct per year and how many are going extinct per day. You will find it useful to help yourself and others toward the transformation we so desperately need to stop this 6th great extinction. Please share this with as many people as possible. This scale is based on the 25 million square kilometers of Rainforests that once covered our beautiful Earth and the current rate of deforestation, 222,000 square kilometers per year. The numbers are computations from many sources including satellite imagery, World Resources Institute and The United Nations. This scale also takes into account if the current trends were to continue, we would peak at 250,000 square kilometers per year of in the period from 2005 to 2010 and then would begin to fall simply because not enough Rainforests would remain to sustain such high declines. As of today, March 19, 1999 there are 6.11 million square kilometers left or 24.43% VRA, with 58.01% RS remaining.

  Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction

Year	Virgin Rainforest Area % Remaining	Rainforest Species % Remaining	Rainforest Extinction's % Per Year	Rainforest Extinction's Per Day *Based On A 40,450,000 Beginning
2026	0.00	0.00	0.00	0000
2025	.80	4.00	4.00	4432
2024	1.60	8.00	4.00	4432
2023	2.40	12.00	4.00	4432
2022	3.20	16.00	4.00	4432
2021	4.00	20.00	4.00	4432
2020	4.82	24.10	4.09	4533
2019	5.65	28.25	4.18	4632
2018	6.51	32.55	4.27	4743
2017	7.38	36.90	4.36	4832
2016	8.27	41.35	4.45	4943
2015	9.18	45.90	4.55	5042
2014	10.11	50.06	4.16	4610
2013	11.06	50.59	.525	582
2012	12.02	51.12	.536	594
2011	13.00	51.67	.546	605
2010	14.00	52.23	.555	616
2009	15.00	52.78	.555	616
2008	16.00	53.34	.555	616
2007	17.00	53.89	.555	616
2006	18.00	54.45	.555	616
2005	19.00	55.00	.555	616
2004	19.98	55.55	.546	605
2003	20.94	56.08	.536	594
2002	21.89	56.61	.525	582
2001	22.82	57.12	.515	571
2000	23.73	57.63	.505	560
1999	24.62	58.12	.495	549
1998	25.49	58.61	.484	536
1997	26.35	59.08	.474	525
1996	27.18	59.55	.464	514
1995	28.00	60.00	.454	503
1994	28.80	60.44	.444	493
1993	29.60	60.89	.444	493
1992	30.40	61.33	.444	493
1991	31.20	61.78	.444	493
1990	32.00	62.22	.444	493

* Scientists now agree between 15 and 100 million species inhabited the Earth before Homo Sapiens population started growing exponentially and destructively 10,000 years ago with advent of agriculture. * We use the Fibonacci Series and Golden Rectangle number 1.618 which is also found throughout nature and apply this to how many species there originally where per square kilometer. Then times it by the 25,000,000 square kilometers - once the original size of the Rainforests and you get 40,450,000 Rainforest species. * The Rainforests were home to 61.8% of the original species, Biodiversity, Web of Life found on Earth. This makes the total for all of the species originally on Earth 65,453,075.   Rainforests Destruction Solutions We can only stop this endgame by creating a Unity of 1% of people who truly realize 100% that we are about to go extinct. When this 1% understand and believe, they become like a tuning fork that resonates at a frequency that affects and brings this awareness to the other 99%. This critical mass spontaneous combustion of awareness goes by quite a few different names. You may know it as Universal Consciousness, The 100th Monkey or the brilliant new science called Morphic Resonance. What ever you want to call it, the phenomenon works, but we need to reach the masses to get through to the 1% with this knowledge and information. And we need to reach them very, very quickly. The intent of the LOVEARTH Network is to lovingly create this Unity of 1% through the development of hundreds of environmental humanitarian websites. These websites are in the areas most important to help humanity become aware of the magnitude of the destruction that we are doing to life sustaining ecosystems. These websites are also in areas that will awaken humanity to all of the wonderfully brilliant ideas and solutions that are still possible to save our species Dance on the Stage of Life. These websites are in the following areas: environment, education, renewable energies, overpopulation, science, politics, technology, computers, history, alternative medicine, religion, humor, children, social issues, health and nutrition, meditation, fitness, the arts, love, peace, holistic, organic, music and many more categories. We feel it is essential to obtain as many quality domain names for websites as possible, because they are being taken at the rate of tens of thousands per day. We know that to disseminate this urgent environmental message the most efficient way is the Internet. This is the perfect medium and we believe the only medium left to effectively create the awareness and reach the greatest number of people, in the shortest amount of time. It is the last avenue for free speech that the corporations don't yet control. The television, computer and phone will merge into a single communication center within just 3 to 5 years. We also realize, and this is so very important, that every website will be just like a television channel because of new technologies such as full motion video, ever increasing bandwidth and constant improvements in compression of software. Computers with cable modems are now capable of getting moving images off the Internet and within 5 years a website will be the same as a television channel. The LOVEARTH Network of hundreds of websites plans to take full advantage of this. We will be offering creative and well documented quality ideas and information with a wide ranging scope. This information will first go up as text and pictures and then on real audio on all websites. We then want to have, as soon as possible, the best worldwide ideas, documentaries, exposes and lectures on video and available on demand, meaning any time you want to see it, on all of these websites. One of our immediate goals is to make a film of every living Nobel Laureate that signed the 1992 document World Scientist' Warning To Humanity, answering the question when do you believe that the Omega Point will occur and why? A brief 2 minute answer from each would make a documentary film that would help create the awareness that is so desperately needed. Also, a more in depth answer of up to an hour would be put online throughout the LOVEARTH Network. The websites will feature a photo and biography on each Nobel Laureate with the option of reading, listening and soon watching their answer to the most important issue facing humanity. There is nothing more important for you to realize in your lifetime. We are about to go extinct as a species. What else matters... and how dare we be so selfish and ruin it all for our future generations. This is why the LOVEARTH Network needs your support today.  Only by working together can we put up this essential network of environmental humanitarian websites and create the awareness to form the Unity of 1%. Contribute what you think is just, to help us create this loving sustainable Earth, for our children, grandchildren and all of the future generations that are to follow. Our promise to you and the future generations is that we will find the best and the brightest ideas and solutions amongst our teachers, scientists, environmentalists, researchers, investigative journalists, writers, webmasters, film and video makers, religious and spiritual leaders, photographers, musicians, artists, poets, and children from around our Earth. We will publish their ideas in text, pictures, audio and then video. Nothing will stop us, for nothing is more important to do. The LOVEARTH Network will create the awareness for sustainability in the 1% so the truth may resonate out to the other 99%. Only then will the next generations have the same chance we had to flourish on Earth. Only then will these next generations have the chance to pass on a sustainable Earth to their future generations, so they in turn may flourish forever in harmony.

What We Can Do

1) Read and understand the most important study on Earth: Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction states that the number one issue now facing humanity is the manmade ecological disaster of mass species extinctions that results from Rainforests Destruction. We will reach the point in 2012-2015 where only 10% Virgin Rainforests remain, leaving only 50% of Rainforests species. We must not go past this natural threshold. www.Rainforests.net 2) Read the one page summary of Rainforests Biodiversity Scale Of Destruction www.ExtinctionForDummies 3) Please use one of the following types of paper: Kenaf, Hemp or 100% Post Consumer Recycled when printing. For Kenaf, the most environmentally correct paper go to www.VisionPaper.com For Hemp Paper go to www.LivingTreePaper.com or www.EcoAmerica.com For 100% Post Consumer paper use Domtar Sandpiper at www.AtlanticRecycled.com 4) Give, send or e-mail copies to Family member(s) and / or Friend(s) Local / National Newspaper(s) / Magazine(s) Radio / TV talk show host(s) Local / Environmental / Humanitarian / Educational / Religious / Scientific Group(s) Governor / Congressperson / Both Senators / The Vice President / President / As Well As Every Candidate That Is Running In 2000 5) Post On Environmental / Humanitarian / Educational / Religious / Scientific Message Boards And News Groups 6) Call into Local and National Radio / TV talk show(s) Simply highlight the 2 or 3 significant points you got from Rainforests Clearly mention the Website where the study is on www.Rainforests.net 7) Write your own brief letter or print out a copy of Rainforests and send to one or more of the 365 Top Earth Conscious Celebrities Get All Of Their Snail Mail Addresses @ www.Celebrity-Websites.com 8) Visit the LOVEARTH Network now with over 300 Websites www.LOVEARTH.net Including www.Extinction-Solutions.net Where you can read about the top 36 Extinction Solutions and post your own 9) We seek E-Mail lists of All Earth Conscious Organizations and Influential People 10) Send your suggestion(s) to help spread the message of Rainforests Destruction Any Questions? E-Mail Us. We will do our best to answer you as quickly as possible Mailto:[email protected]

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THE LAST SONG



Singing and singing

For a mate

But there are no mates

To be found

The last of his kind

But he keeps on singing

I wonder if he knows

How beautiful he sings

The last song



© ME

May 1, 1996

THE RIVETS ARE POPPING



500 species per day

Are leaving the Web of Life

Man's extinction is on the way

Cutting our own throats with a knife

Like Paul Ehrlich says

The rivets are popping

We're like a plane in the air

And each time a species goes extinct

Another rivet pops from the metal

One by one they pop till

The plane falls apart and crashes



© ME

February 20, 1996

TRIVIAL MATTERS



Wasting our time with distracting

Trivial matters

While our Earth is being decimated

In our lifetime

In front of our eyes

When there is nothing more important

For humanity to do

Then to face this atrocity

And deal with it with all our energies

But no not us

We'd rather be

Wasting our time with distracting

Trivial matters




© ME

June 8, 1996

HOMO SAPIENS



The massive

Slaughter

Of all Life

On Earth

The iceberg

Is now ripping

The unsinkable

Titanic

Homo Sapiens



© ME

August 1, 1996

A UNITY OF ONE PERCENT



A unity of one percent

Who revere all life on Earth as dear

Must begin to form today

If there's any wish for survival here

A unity of one percent

Resonates when thinking as one

Causing a critical mass

Where sustainability will become

Upon all future generations



© ME

November 6, 1996

FOREVER IN HARMONY



It's make or break

One more time

Will we cover ourselves

In our prime

Or learn to live

As meant to be

Back with nature

Forever in harmony

Which we choose

Is up to us

Either we fuse

Or forever rust

But now's the time

To make the choice

And only together we'll find

They'll hear our voice

To make the changes

That have to be

For us to live

Forever in harmony

© ME

February 2, 1981

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