by Mark Elsis

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.