Joel M. Curzon
@JoelMCurzon
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Author of book on the Everglades; environmentalist; serpent lover; hard-hearted empiricist; atheist with a religious past. Physics B.S., Harvard J.D.
San Diego & Tucson
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Don’t pretend to be an environmentalist if you refuse to acknowledge the problem of human
#overpopulation
and ongoing
#population
growth.
#EarthDay
#environment
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If
#COVID19
doesn’t make kids very ill, but it kills or hospitalizes their parents, then it is hurting those kids pretty badly, in my estimation.
#coronavirus
#CloseTheSchools
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Orcas have seen enough, and have decided that humanity is the enemy. The orcas are correct.
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A note about the current highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) sweeping the globe, killing hundreds of millions of birds, and unknown numbers of mammals: this was caused by people through intensive agriculture. It wouldn’t exist without us. It is not “natural.”
#H5N1
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I am not “anti-solar.” I am against bulldozing intact habitats on public lands for industrial-scale solar. Anyone who tells you that we have no choice is misinformed or lying.
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Golf courses don’t belong in the Sonoran Desert. We don’t need to be wasting the Colorado River on this.
Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along.
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Rattlesnakes are welcome in my Arizona yard anytime. I’ll offer them water if they’ll take it. My advice: If you don’t like rattlesnakes, stay out of Arizona.
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Last night my 14-year old daughter was lamenting how everything natural is being degraded and destroyed, every wild place is being overrun with people, and how when she is my age there will be almost nothing left, and I wish I had more encouraging responses to give.
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@evornithology
A PhD is not a bachelor’s degree. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology. He is a biologist.
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Fact everyone should know: The global human population is growing by about 80 million people per year, or roughly a new United States every four years.
Please keep this in mind whenever you read an article crying about declining birth rates.
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If you think planned degrowth is unworkable, wait until you see unplanned collapse. Those are the alternatives.
Physics doesn’t care about your feelings.
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“Should we colonize Mars?”
No species that ruins its home planet deserves access to any other.
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Thirsty
#rattlesnake
on my front porch, last spring.
Sat with it for about an hour before it crawled away. Moments like this are why I bought my house in the Arizona desert 16 years ago.
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Mainstream economists: “The world has never had it this good. More!”
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I didn’t get my concern with overpopulation from Thomas Malthus. I didn’t get it from Paul Erlich either. I have my own eyes.
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My daughter just found this hatchling in our backyard. Tiny little thing!
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One’s carbon footprint is just one part of one’s ecological footprint: We need to stop mistaking the former for the latter.
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If we could please stop treating deserts as wastelands and bulldozing desert habitat for utility-scale solar farms on public lands, that would be great. Put solar on rooftops and already disturbed land, not on this.
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@StatisticUrban
The world’s human population grew by 70-80 million people last year. That’s roughly a new United States every four years. Find something real to worry about, like the fact that there are far too many people already.
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@angelfairy005
@DaveAtherton20
@mohammed_hijab
@SalmanRushdie
@DouglasKMurray
People like this don’t belong in Britain or anywhere else in the West.
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If you think that replacing the habitat on the left with the industrial solar plant on the right is “good for the environment,” we are not simpatico.
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If a proposed energy source involves the mass destruction of desert habitat, it isn’t “clean.”
#CleanEnergy
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Kerry is right about this, but it’s important to add that 8 billion isn’t sustainable either. Nor is 6. Nor is 4.
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Some people seem to think that 8 billion people could be fed with organic, sustainable agriculture. This is beyond delusional. This is not a defense of our current dependence on fossil fuels for food. It’s an acknowledgment that 8 billion humans is not a sustainable population.
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I don’t see these desert beauties very often. Actually, my first, found under the stars with my daughter.
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When this tree germinated, Christianity didn’t exist. Islam didn’t exist. Possibly, Judaism as we know it didn’t exist.
Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) growing above 11,000 feet. Basin and Range Province, North America.
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@girlsreallyrule
That’s real nonsense. If Dems want to lose again in 2020, it’s a solid strategy.
No Dem candidate is going to win a general election without a lot of Sanders voters. Maybe consider not gratuitously pissing them off. Just a thought.
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The proper measure of human overpopulation isn’t the number of humans starving to death: it is the number of other species being decimated, the amount of habitat being destroyed, the degree of damage that the human population is doing to every aspect of the environment.
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Christian: "Muslims will burn in Hell."
Muslim: "Christians will burn in Hell."
Muslims & Christians: "Stephen Hawking will burn in Hell."
Muslims & Christians: "Why are atheists so intolerant?"
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Atlanta’s mayor gets it: “This is not a protest. . . This is chaos.”
“If you care about this city, go home.”
(HT:
@CKHyppolite
)
#AtlantaProtest
#Atlanta
#protests
#Riots2020
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This Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has lived through as much as 4,000 years of human-caused decline in biodiversity.
It sits above 11,000 feet in North America’s Basin and Range Province.
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The world’s human population is still growing by about 70-80 million people per year, which is close to a new United States every four years. Please don’t swallow all the contrary nonsense pushed in headlines. There are far too many of us.
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Great-horned owl scanning for prey atop a saguaro this evening. iPhone pic.
Happy Solstice.
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This should absolutely be illegal.
"30 a day keeps the doctor away"
That is how trappers really view wild animals. It is all just a joke and taking life means absolutely nothing to them. Trappers will wipe out areas of beavers, fox, raccoon, coyote, fisher and otter.
#NHCART
#BanTrapping
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This is a place that I love. Now people want to destroy it by making it into a national park. If you don’t understand this statement, have you been to a national park lately?
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Degrowth will happen. The only choice is whether we attempt to plan and manage it, or have it occur as an unplanned, catastrophic collapse. We don’t get to opt out.
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“Overpopulation concerns have been debunked.”
Is that why wildlife populations have plummeted by 70% in the last fifty years? Is that why 96% of terrestrial mammalian biomass now consists of humans and their livestock and pets? Is that why national parks are so crowded?
🤔
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Cacti produce some of the most spectacular flowers. These opened on my property overnight, and will have wilted by tomorrow.
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Understanding “
#sustainability
” as it pertains to
#population
. Here’s a graph. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Evidence for the Resurrection:
• Anonymous hearsay (the gospels and Acts), written decades after the alleged events.
• Hearsay recited by Paul, who never met Jesus, and some kind of psychotic episode “on the road to Damascus.”
That’s all there is.
Happy Easter
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There is no “housing shortage.” Just an excess of people.
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There is nothing “clean” about destroying desert habitats. Don’t call yourself an environmentalist if you support sacrificing the desert Southwest to industrial solar, mining, and transmission.
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@pidten
@ConstantNot
@sweatystartup
Snakes control rodents, which reduces ticks, but I suspect your phobias won’t listen.
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“Overpopulation is a myth” is flat-earther-level nonsense. Religions, corporations, and cornucopians have vested interests in denial, but you have your own eyes. Use them.
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Paul Erlich is fundamentally right about this. Humans are not exempt from the physical limits that apply to everything else.
“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
Humanity is consuming 175 percent of what the earth can regenerate. Biologist Paul Erlich says that our current way of life is unsustainable.
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The only relevant question here is this: Is atheism likely to be *true*? That’s it. No punch and pie will be served, and no comfort promised. If truth isn’t what you’re after, that’s your problem.
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When this tree started growing, Islam didn’t exist; Christianity didn’t exist; Judaism as we know it didn’t exist.
Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). Basin & Range Province, North America.
Goodnight.
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Scooping baby diamondback rattlesnakes off the road is the purpose for which hats were created.
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“Currently there is not enough silver available to build the millions of solar panels which will be required in the the transition from fossil fuels . . .”
There’s no more silver coming. We’re stuck with what we have. Let’s stop lying to ourselves.
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The notion that GDP and human population can and should grow forever is the proverbial emperor with no clothes.
Someday, there is going to be a very rude mass awakening.
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You’ll never convince your neighbor to care about the environment if he thinks Jesus is coming back next week.
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Don’t have children. Just don’t.
Have been doing some work with Tim Garrett's (
@nephologue
) "No Way Out" model. It was originally ported into
#Minsky
by
@ProfSteveKeen
a few years ago. I managed to extend the simulation to start in 1900 (vs 2017, in Tim's original run). I'll blog about it this week.
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Taken with a 50mm lens. Not the safest thing I’ve ever done, but it worked out.
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Overpopulation denial is flat-earther-level lunacy. If you can’t see it, you’re either blind or you just refuse to acknowledge what’s right in front of your nose.
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Snakes are beautiful, and life is too short for those who think otherwise.
Ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus). Southern Arizona.
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Look, I’m not a “doomer.” I’m a realist. Realistically, I see no sign that the human species is capable of not driving everything over a cliff. Human nature and human numbers are the problem, and more tech won’t save us from ourselves. I’d love to be wrong about this.
Things are not improving in the North Atlantic. The new records being set every day are crushing the previous highs set just last year.
For example, yesterday the North Atlantic SST was 20.41°C, beating last year's record 19.94°C by almost 0.5°C.
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Ancient bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), above 11,000 feet. California.
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I’m very tired of people who call themselves environmentalists but can’t muster the courage to discuss population with any honesty, if at all. Yes, this includes most of the big environmental organizations. They’ve abandoned the environment as their primary mission.
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Prominent Democrats are greenwashing the mass destruction of desert habitats in the Southwest and California. Deserts are not wastelands. Solar belongs on rooftops, parking lots, canals, warehouses, not on desert habitat.
#WorldBiodiversityDay
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@R_H_Ebright
“Minority Oversight Staff,” i.e., a bunch of young Republican staffers with political science degrees.
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If you knew your building was burning down, would you choose to bring more people into it? This is how I feel about choosing to have children right now: Under no circumstances would I do it.
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I am soooo tired of urban climate types who think that CO2 emissions are the only meaningful metric of environmental impact; don’t know or care about habitats, biodiversity, or ecological limits; think GDP & population growth can go on forever; think more tech is all we need
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Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck the Democratic Party. Fuck the “Inflation Reduction Act” and its fraudulent claim to deal with climate change. Fuck the big enviro groups who sold out long ago, and played along with the whole charade.
I’m done.
#Willow
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“Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that.”
“The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop.”
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A saguaro near my place in Arizona, which germinated before the state of Arizona existed.
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I’m off this site for a while. Only so much Christofascism, crypto-scamming, growthism, and natalist nonsense I can take. At least we humans will never ruin the stars (even if we ruin our ability to see them).
I’ll be back.
(Orion nebula setting behind ancient saguaro: 2020).
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My daughter, demonstrating how one should look at a snake. (Pacific gopher snake [Pituophis catenifer catenifer]).
#SnakeCuteOff
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I agree with reintroducing wolves to Britain. But is the overpopulation of *deer* really what’s causing an ecological disaster ? Or is it the overpopulation of a certain, bipedal primate? Monbiot’s ideological opposition to that question is part of the problem.
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Civilization may end, humanity may go extinct, and we might leave the earth as a trashed, biologically impoverished planet; but the world will not end, for all that, for billions of years. Humans have the obnoxious habit of speaking of “the world” as if the world is us. It isn’t.
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Do people realize that promoting visitation to any heretofore little-known location is a sure-fire way of destroying that location? Do you know of a relatively unknown natural place? Don’t share its location on social media. Just don’t.
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You can thank cattle ranchers for this plague among pronghorn antelope. Mind the Latin: Mycoplasma bovis.
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I’m so tired of environmental organizations too timid to actually stand up for the environment they claim to protect.
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Probably too rough to post, but I do love stars and bristlecone pines. Anywhere that people have yet to ruin is special.
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I’m so sick of watching people argue about pronouns while the world burns . .
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At this point, the most important thing our species could do would be to stop lying to itself. Unfortunately, there is no indication that humanity as a whole is capable of that.
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Islam is not indigenous. It is invasive, supremacist, and colonial. These people don’t know what they’re doing.
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The “green” energy rush is going to destroy so much of the natural west. This is blind, environmentally destructive policy masquerading as “clean.”
The Willcox Playa in southern AZ is a remnant of a Pleistocene era lake. In winter thousands of Sandhill cranes migrate here. Monsoons bring leopard frogs & tiger beetles. Max Power, a Canadian corporation, hopes to mine the playa for lithium. Exploratory drilling has begun.
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Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) under the stars. Basin and Range Province.
15 minute exposure.
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I don’t have faith in humanity, because never its history has our species ever demonstrated an ability to grow the fuck up.
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Better than ‘X,’ I have to say. I need more time away from this platform.
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If people knew how catastrophic the next 80 years are going to be, most would not choose to have children. We, as a species, are lying to ourselves to avoid confrontation with what’s coming.
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Look who showed up in my driveway. (Released right away, of course. Any snake is welcome on my property.)
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Biodiversity is collapsing, and human population growth (and related consumption) is the main driver, not climate (yet).
“[A]lmost half the planet’s species are experiencing rapid population declines.”
#Overpopulation
is real. Silence is complicity.
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“A 1% population growth rate doesn’t seem excessive.”
It depends entirely on what the base population number is. In a world of 8 billion people, a 1% growth rate means a growth of 80 million people per year, which is a new United States every four years. So, yes, it’s excessive.
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Atheists who shy away from criticizing Islam aren’t doing it right.
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This wall is such a waste. Destroys habitat and wildlife connectivity — for jaguars, pumas, bears, javelinas, coatimundis and many other species. Does absolutely *nothing* to control immigration.
You people who think this is how to control immigration have been conned.
Just a few years ago, this entire mountainside was untouched, pristine wilderness. This area of the Atascosa Highlands is a biological marvel & a key corridor for endangered jaguars.
Now, this useless wall has been blasted right through it, accomplishing nothing but destruction.
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Two things that we have yet to ruin: this 175-year-old saguaro in the Sonoran Desert, and the Orion Nebula.
I don’t know how much longer the cactus will hold on.
#Arizona
wants to put a new freeway through this area (
#Interstate11
), which is the last thing we need.
#StormHour
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