A lovely new tool for comparing up to three different blogworld variables is available on icerocket and I used it to see how biodiversity was doing in comparison to global warming in the blogosphere.The result was disheartening. Folks are much, much more worried about a crisis that is yet to come than they are about an ongoing and potentially much more devastating one - loss of BIODIVERSITY!
I AM A BIT AT A LOSS. How does one convince people that we are losing species permanently on a daily basis? Once stable ecosystems are endangered and will be irrecoverably lost if we don't start taking immediate action. Once a species is lost it will never be regained and once an ecosystem is damaged by species loss, that ecosystem is doomed!
Here are the actual stats as of May 18th, 2007:
GW = Global Warming, B = Biodiversity and E = Endangered Species
Trend Terms......Posts per day..........Average %.......Total posts
GW.....................1,353.91................. 0.1791.............121,852
B..........................53.16....................0.0069...............4,784
E..........................96.30....................0.0127...............8,667
That's at present something like 25 times as much activity on GW than it deserves and biodiversity needs to get 50 times stronger...
Any Bright Ideas?
The minute you start getting concerned about bioinversity and start blogging on it and doing something about it, these stats will surely improve.
2 comments:
Sam, when Babs was in 7th or 8th standard he wrote a poem which I am proud to publish here. He wrote a much longer one and edited it to this cute little verse himself. Maybe we should encourage children to write verses. When they read their own words, they will get even more involved?
Babs' verse:
From the primordial stew
Nature made a wonderful coup
From tiny amoeba to man
She created numerous clans
Every creature for her is dear
It’s unfair for man to interfere
Let’s celebrate all of nature
To finely secure our own future.
Thanks for posting that Paru. Babiya has talent! I'm posting his verses along with other poetry further down in the sidebar.
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