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Protected areas not enough to save life on EarthJeremy Hance
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Sprawl in the desert: urban sprawl spreading out from Las Vegas. A new study finds that to save life on Earth, society must confront human population and overconsumption of resources. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
"The global network of protected areas is a major achievement, and the pace at which it has been achieved is impressive," says co-author Dr. Peter F. Sale, Assistant Director of the United Nations University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, in a press release. "Protected areas are very useful conservation tools, but unfortunately, the steep continuing rate of biodiversity loss signals the need to reassess our heavy reliance on this strategy."
Protected areas also do not combat all threats to species. While they help buffer species from habitat loss and overexploitation, they do little to save species from other impacts such as climate change, pollution, and invasive species.
Finally, governments have left most protected areas with too little money for management. According to the study, globally protected areas are underfunded to the tune of $18 billion a year: three times as much as is currently spent on managing protected areas ($6 billion). Poor management opens the door to any number of human impacts including poaching, illegal logging, habitat destruction, illegal fishing, etc. Lack of funding, poor management, and corruption means many protected areas are simply 'paper parks', protected by law, but systematically eroded by impacts.
"We're definitely not saying we shouldn't protect areas—the problem is that we're investing all our human capital into those areas," co-author Camilo Mora of University of Hawaii at Manoa told the BBC. "We're putting all our eggs in one basket, which is dangerous; but even more dangerous is that there's a hole in the bottom of the basket."
The future is also precarious for many of the world's protected areas. As human population grows—to seven billion this year, and a projected nine billion by 2035—and demand for resources grows, its likely governments will turn more and more to attacking protected areas for resources. Already, this trend is visible in a number of countries. Tanzania is pushing to downsize Selous Game Reserve for uranium mining. Cambodia is handing over 50,000 hectares of Viracehy National Park to rubber plantations and other development projects, essentially shrinking the protected area by 16%. Controversial roads, which can bring a number of adverse impacts, are being planned through protected areas in the Serengeti, in Laos, Vietnam, and in Sumatra. The US has been debating for decades to downgrade the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to allow oil drilling. To date the refuge is safe, but the issue is likely to come up again. As the cost of food rises, there is also likely to be increased conflict between agricultural land and protected areas. One cannot depend on protected areas today surviving in the same form tomorrow.
An unidentified butterfly in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
"The explosive growth in the world's human population in the last century has led to an increasing demand on the Earth's ecological resources and a rapid decline in biodiversity. According to recent estimates, about 1.2 Earths would be required to support the different demands of the 5.9 billion people living on the planet in 1999. This 'excess' use of the Earth's resources or 'overshoot' is possible because resources can be harvested faster than they can be replaced and because waste can accumulate (e.g. atmospheric CO2)," reads the paper.
Along this line, the authors conclude that if global society continues down the road we are on, we will need 27 planet Earths to sustain our consumption by 2050.
The authors don't provide detailed solutions in their paper, but write that society must prioritize "alternative solutions targeting human demand for ecological goods and services, while ensuring human welfare."
They add: "In our view, the only scenario to achieve sustainability [...] will require a concerted effort to reduce human population growth and consumption and simultaneously increase the Earth's biocapacity through the transference of technology to increase agricultural and aquacultural productivity."
In fact, Mora told Aljazeera that in the future the situation could become so dire as to require 'one child per woman'.
"I'm from Colombia, it blows my mind that some governments in the developing world pay women to have more children," Mora added.
The authors argue that booming human population isn't just a problem for the world's species, but for people alike. Growing human populations is likely to lead to worsening shortages in food and water, declines in education, more competition for jobs, and spreading diseases. Global quality of life looks likely to be a casualty of more and more people.
A black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) in Madagascar. Their population has dropped by 80% in 27 years. This species is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
"I don't have a solution—I have struggled for some time trying to think what is the way to get people to realize how important this is—but if we don't find it soon, the future is a very grim one," Sale told the BBC. "We're talking about losing 50 percent of species in the next half century—that's faster than any previous mass extinction event—and anybody who thinks we can go through a mass extinction and be perfectly fine is just deluding themselves."
Mora adds in a press release that "biodiversity is humanity's life-support system, delivering everything from food, to clean water and air, to recreation and tourism, to novel chemicals that drive our advanced civilization."
CITATION: Camilo Mora and Peter F. Sale. Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Vol. 434: 251–266, 2011 doi: 10.3354/meps09214.
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Ya this hasn't been good for anyone.
Thats a nice setup. BD makes great products.
The Long Ranges will shoot out significantly farther, They are designed for Long Range, thats not just a sales term its a description. A quick look at the reflector size/ depth and the knowledge that the LEDs are the same and driven at nearly the same current tells the story.
What I am calling a driving light is the Dirt Bike Squadron headlight That should be the same light that is on your bike The photo is a single light . Other photos are marked as to how many lights where on.
In keeping with the advrider standard : which I see as the normal, good intentioned, everyday info sharing that is predominately found at this site, I sure hope "stuff" does chill down a bit. Obviously, there is a lot of competition and a lot at stake for the LED vendors.
As far as I can tell, you seem to be a stand up fella. I say the same for Sanjoh, who I have done business with. I do like the lights I bought from him. Having experienced the difficulties associated with taking realistic night shots of LED lights, I believe you when you said that you were not doing any monkey business with the shots. I applaud your attempt at showing us consumers a side by side comparison. Just a few suggestions if you make another stab at side by side comparisons. Smaller pics that show each manufacturers light, side by side on the web page, would be best, with particular attention being given to matching the models with the nearest specs, then having them shown ,side by side, same exact field of view and mounting points, And the same number of lights.
As for the squadron vs. the optimus 2 pic, and your reply; There are actually several different variations of the squadron light. The one you used in the comparison is the driving light version, and only one squadron was used if I understand your reply correctly. A fair comparison would be if you used two squadron lights, and in the spot configuration, not the driving light version. That is the light I currently have, and the reason I was hoping for an "apples to apples" comparison.
As you can see by my set-up, I am an equal opportunity consumer. As I said earlier, I am happy with what the Sanjoe lights provide for me, as I am happy with the BD lights. Maybe I have an led "addiction" similar to hollywood stars addictions to plastic surgery, shit, who knows. Once I started down this road of LED purchases, I just keep buying up the latest an greatest. I really need some more distance out of my set up to be satisfied completely.
Your optimus dual has definitely piqued my interest. Without seeing this lights preformance live and in person, and without a fair amount of feedback from folks who have seen and compared all the different lights, side by side, I just dont believe I will really know its capabillities.
So box me one up, I am going to pull the trigger on purchasing your optimus 2, (10 degree model).
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The "OHV" on the plate is the big killer in several states. That OHV plate is used like a OHV sticker in some states and does not require one to purchase insurance. In most Midwestern states this type of plate infers a bike with limited trail -to -trail allowed street use....but don't get caught riding it in town to the grocery store!
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I just bought a new 2012 990 R on New Year's Eve, so it already out of date. A year old and never ridden!
My wife and I rode a 2004 950 on many dual sports and local mini adventures. No other continents or sand dunes.
I think the 990 captures the imagination and possibilities. Just by looking at it. It looks exactly like a PD Rally bike.
I think the 950/990 design is stunningly beautiful and that the new design 11xx looks like a cross between a V-Strom and a Multi Strada. (No offense)
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I was sitting on the 990 pretending to ride other day while on the center stand ( since I don't have ice studs in the tires to get out of my "lane" ),and reached down to pet the German Shepherd, and couldn't reach him! Lol.
My wife was practicing mounting (the bike), and has discovered that the proper mounting technique is like getting on and off a horse: left foot on the peg until all the way on, left foot on the peg until all the way off. She is 5' small.
I'll try to keep some updates on the 2012 990R vs the old 2004 950. At this point all I can say is it sure looks pretty.
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If you guys haven't seen the LARP documentary "Darkon", you should. It's a hoot watching these guys run around the woods playing with fake swords and pretending to be medieval. Good times are had by all.
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This V-neck sleeveless floral sundress is constructed of 100 percent rayon material, and it is made by La Cera. This dress has a beautiful floral pattern in two different color options, black or red, with cap sleeves for that breezy look.
ITEM#: 14531304This La Cera A-line sleeveless sundress is composed of comfortable 100-percent rayon. With cap sleeves, a V-neck design and convenient pull-on closure, the dress showcases a brilliant floral print.
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For this school year, the state of Wisconsin has changing the testing requirements for all grade levels. At the high school level we will continue to use the WKCE to test in the areas of Social Studies and Science in the fall for 10th grade students. The 9th grade students have already taken the ACT Aspire test in October and will take it again this spring. Our 10th grade students will also take the Aspire test in spring. Finally, all of our 11th grade students will take the ACT and ACT WorkKeys test in March. This will be the first time that our school will have 100% participation in the ACT testing. The test results can be used for college entran ce.
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I'm farely new at messing around with WordPress and in a recent screen-cast #73, http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/73-wordpress-theme/3 Chris showed how load Google-Hosted JQuery in the WordPress function.php page and Chris also has a post on Digging into WordPress about this too, http://digwp.com/2009/06/use-google-hosted-javascript-libraries-still-the-right-way/ ). In that a article they mention using the "admin_is" conditional tip so as not too mess up the Rich-text editor on the admin side. Unfortunately, I'm fairly new to WordPress and don't know how to go about doing this. Can someone help me do that?
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It's nearly time for the transport unions' annual threat of strike action over the Christmas holiday period, and lo, ASLEF have obliged.
The union are entering into talks with Transport for London (TfL) over bank holiday pay — keen-eyed readers might remember that last year's opening gambit was also a threat to ballot over strike action on Boxing Day…oh, and they did in 2010 as well, though in 2009 the RMT decided to take one for the team instead. Can anyone see a pattern emerging here?
The bone of contention (still) is an existing agreement between TfL and the unions which meant staff got extra annual leave and pay if they chose to work some bank holidays. ASLEF's argument is that drivers are now working the majority of the bank holidays and therefore should get triple pay and a day off in lieu — although we've yet to find out if this year's pay demand is the same as in previous years.
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Bucs linebacker Mason Foster has quietly put together a solid training camp, and continuity has played a big role in that. Foster not only gets a second year in Greg Schiano's defense under Bill Sheridan, he also gets Lavonte David back next to him. The two are roommates again this year in training camp.
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Aside from the thorny ethics of the Bitcoin underground economy, the currency's wild fluctuations present a more practical problem. Silk Road allows the site's dealers to peg their Bitcoin prices to the dollar, so that a typical gram of heroin on the site costs around $200 regardless of whether Bitcoins are worth 50 cents apiece, as in early 2011, or $266, at their precrash peak in April 2013. (They're around $100 today.) The site also offers a currency hedging system that protects dealers against swings in Bitcoin's value while their drugs are in transit.
Bitcoin did more than enable the modern online black market, Roberts says. It also brought him and Silk Road together. Roberts isn't actually the site's founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road's creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me anything about and who may have used the "Dread Pirate Roberts" nom de guerre before it was assumed by the person I interviewed. The current Roberts discovered the site shortly after its creation in early 2011. Around that time, he says, he found a security flaw in the "wallet" software that stored Silk Road's funds. The bug could have allowed a hacker to identify the site's hardware and steal its Bitcoins. Instead of exploiting the weakness, he helped the site's founder fix it, gained his trust and became an active partner in the business. Eventually, the current Roberts says, he bought out Silk Road's creator and assumed full control. "It was his idea to pass the torch, in fact," says Roberts. "He was well compensated."
In February 2012 a post appeared on Silk Road's forums proclaiming that the site's administrator would henceforth be known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, a name taken from the dashing, masked protagonist in the fantasy film The Princess Bride –tellingly, a persona that is passed down in the film from one generation of pirate to another. He soon began to live up to his colorful alter ego, posting lofty manifestos about Silk Road's libertarian political ideals and love letters to his faithful users and vendors; he's even hosted a Dread Pirate Roberts Book Club where he moderated discussions on authors from the Austrian school of free market economics. Commenters on the site describe Roberts as a "hero," a "job creator," "our own Che Guevara" and a "name [that] will live [on] among the greatest men and women in history as a soldier of justice and freedom."
When I ask Roberts how he defines his role at Silk Road–CEO? Owner?–he tells me that he considers himself "a center of trust" between the site's buyers and sellers, a tricky task given that all parties want to remain anonymous. Silk Road has slowly demonstrated to users that it isn't a typical counterfeit-drug scam site or a law enforcement trap. It's made wise use of the trust mechanisms companies like eBay and Airbnb have popularized, including seller ratings and an escrow that releases payment to sellers only after customers receive their merchandise.
"Silk Road doesn't really sell drugs. It sells insurance and financial products," says Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Nicolas Christin. "It doesn't really matter whether you're selling T-shirts or cocaine. The business model is to commoditize security."
With millions flowing into Silk Road, the "vast majority" of which Roberts says is reinvested back in its booming black market, the Dread Pirate brushes off questions about his wealth and lifestyle. He says he carefully limits his spending to keep a low profile but admitted in one forum post to partaking in a few "first-world pleasures." The only such pleasure he would describe to me is smoking "a bowl of sticky indica buds at the end of a long day."
"As far as my monetary net worth is concerned, the future value of Silk Road as an organization dwarfs its and my liquid assets. … I wouldn't sell out for less than 10 figures, maybe 11," he writes with a dash of vainglory. "At some point you're going to have to put Dread Pirate Roberts on that list you all keep over at Forbes. ;)"
IT'S A RULE AS TIMELESS as black markets: Where illegal money goes, violence follows. In a digital market that violence is virtual, but it's as financially real as torching your competitor's warehouse.
In late April Silk Road went offline for nearly a week, straining under a sustained cyberattack that left its sensitive data untouched but overwhelmed its servers. The attack, according to Roberts, was the most sophisticated in Silk Road's history, taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities in Tor and repeatedly shifting tactics to avoid the site's defenses.
The sabotage occurred within weeks of rival site Atlantis' launch. Commenters on the Reddit forum devoted to Silk Road suggested that Roberts' customers and vendors switch to Atlantis during the downtime, leading to gossip that the newcomer had engineered the attack.
"Rumors, nothing more than that," says Atlantis' CEO Vladimir when I interview him in an encrypted chat room. (Like Roberts, Vlad doesn't share much about himself, other than a background in software development, some experience as a small-time pot dealer and a love of psychedelics.) "I have suspicions [about whether] an attack ever took place. It's far more likely they were having infrastructure issues."
Roberts, for his part, won't comment on the April attack's source. He tells me he's happy to see competition in the Web drug market, even as Atlantis boasted in June that it surpassed $500,000 in cumulative transactions. Roberts points out that another site, Black Market Reloaded, has long copied Silk Road's model–even offering a wider variety of merchandise, including illegal firearms–while still attracting only a small fraction of Roberts' customers. "I like having them nipping at my heels," Roberts tells me. "Keeps me motivated."
In a comment on "copycats" posted to Silk Road's forums a few days after Atlantis released its video ad, however, Roberts seemed to fire back. "If you take someone's invention, tweak one little thing and then go around telling everyone that you are 'better,' you get zero respect from me," he wrote. Though the rest of the message focused on the difference between Bitcoin and a newer crypto-currency called Litecoin, users interpreted the comment as a thinly veiled dig at Atlantis.
Meanwhile, Silk Road has also been adopting some of Atlantis' marketing tactics: In addition to Roberts' first real interview, he's created a new public site at SilkRoadLink.com that serves as an online guide to accessing Silk Road, bringing his business, at least tentatively, outside Tor's obscured network.
Competition aside, Roberts has chosen a risky time to raise his profile, as law enforcement tightens its net. Dealers in South Carolina and Australia have been arrested after allegedly selling on Silk Road, although both may have also been dealing in the physical world. In May the proprietors of a Bitcoin-like digital currency system called Liberty Reserve were indicted and accused of helping to launder $6 billion. That same month the biggest Bitcoin currency exchange, Tokyo's Mt. Gox, announced it would require identification for anyone seeking to trade in real world currencies. Then, last month, the FBI exploited a vulnerability in Tor to capture the alleged administrator of a child pornography site in Ireland. And, perhaps most threatening to Roberts, the NSA has been revealed to have fed intelligence to the DEA and other law enforcement agencies.
All of that gives Roberts good reason to distrust any means of communication and payment that could possibly be cracked by law enforcement. In 2012 the operators of a Silk Road-like site known as the Farmer's Market were identified and indicted in a DEA operation called "Adam Bomb." Though they had used Tor to hide their domain, they had communicated with one another using the encrypted e-mail service Hushmail, a service known to cooperate with law enforcement, and had accepted payments through PayPal instead of Bitcoin. Just days after Atlantis' Vladimir insisted that he and his "chief operating officer" communicate with me using an encrypted IM program called Cryptocat, a bug in the program was revealed that could have allowed all of our communications to be read.
Despite his caution, Roberts' personal security remains an open question. But the potential lifetime in prison he might face if identified hasn't slowed down his growing illegal empire. "We are like a little seed in a big jungle that has just broken the surface of the forest floor," he wrote in one speech posted to the site's forums last year. "It's a big scary jungle with lots of dangerous creatures, each honed by evolution to survive in the hostile environment known as human society. But the environment is rapidly changing, and the jungle has never seen a species quite like the Silk Road."
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October 12, 2011
On the heels of redesigned Elantra compact and Accent subcompact, the new 2012 Veloster adds a coupe to Hyundai's burgeoning small-car offering. The distinctive Veloster is a true three-door hatchback: It has a liftgate, two front doors and a single rear door on the curb side for easier backseat access.
By Hyundai's estimation, the Veloster competes with the likes of Honda's CR-Z hybrid and the Scion tC, and might be cross-shopped with the Fiat 500, Mini Cooper and Volkswagen Beetle.The 2012 Hyundai Veloster is a distinctive, high-mileage sport coupe that hints at the excitement to come in future variants.
Hyundai simplifies things by offering just one Veloster trim level starting at $17,300, distinguished only by three interior color schemes, which include gray, black and a red-and-black combination. The interior choices depend on the exterior color chosen. Options include an automatic transmission for $1,250 and two feature-filled packages. With currently known options, the Veloster tops out at $23,310.
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On Tuesday, I attended Tim Wise's discussion on race, privilege, and politics in the United States, free for CU students in Macky Auditorium. Mr. Wise is an advocate for racial equality in the U.S., and he was informative, intriguing, and extremely partisan. As a speaker, he was extremely charismatic and passionate about race and privilege in our country. I really liked his stance on the current sense of awkwardness that surrounds many discussions about race in the U.S. From personal experience, it is very true that whites, blacks, Hispanics, and people from races of all kinds do not typically talk about race privilege in a truly honest fashion. As Mr. Wise pointed out, in 35 years our demography will be split between white and minority citizens. It is crucial, then, to learn as a society to have productive, sincere conversations about race privilege now, before we reach a tipping point in the future. I strongly agree with Mr. Wise on his charges that the founding of our nation and the history that has unfolded since the Revolutionary War has conditioned America to cater to whites, providing them with both seen and unseen advantages in their lives. It is not a coincidence that minorities have lower rates of education, income, and life expectancy. I agree with Mr. Wise that starting off, minorities have fewer chances to go to college and make a successful life for themselves; whites and blacks do not start off on an equal platform.
However, while Mr. Wise's views on race privilege in the U.S., in my view, were spot on, the manner in which he presented his material was inappropriate on a political level. He constantly criticized and demonized Republicans of all shapes and sizes, and made broad generalizations regarding their political and social views. Again, while I may not have disagreed with the claims he was making, the way in which he chastised the right and blamed conservatives for our country's social inequities completely voided most of the credibility he had as a speaker. When speaking on highly charged, controversial political and social issues, it is necessary to present facts and opinions drawn from facts in as respectful a way as possible. Tim Wise had no problem rallying a crowd of mostly liberal Boulderites who shared his same views, but to affect real change, he needs to be able to convince people who either disagree with him or are unaware of the current status quo regarding racial privilege in the U.S. He has the potential to be a truly transcendent speaker, given his highly educated and cutting critique on societal functions that exist today. He is extremely funny and relatable to a crowd of many different groups, and exhibits a large, exciting persona when speaking. The way in which he bashes the political right, however, makes him as much as an extremist as the Tea Party members he rages against. I enjoyed the talk, and he furthered my position on racial issues that I had already considered to be very important, given my volunteer work with the Hispanic community, but I was turned off by his crusading, accusatory delivery.
As a policial science major, I try to see both sides of every issue. Tim Wise was a very good speaker, and the auditorium was packed, but he presented a very racy and controversial talk. However, I am very fortunate to have been able to see such an interesting speaker for free - CU offers many of these events weekly for students.
Until next time,