Longest life-span animal under threat.
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As the capitalists step up their exploitation and destruction of the Arctic, not only polar bears face extinction. The animal with the longest life-span, if left alone, the Greenland Shark, is also under threat. One born in 1624 was found in 2016.
“A Greenland shark estimated to be 392 years old was discovered. This individual is the oldest known vertebrate, with a potential lifespan ranging from 272 to 512 years. The age was determined through radiocarbon dating of the shark’s eye lens.
The Greenland shark is a deep-sea dweller, primarily found in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. These sharks are among the largest in the world, reaching lengths of up to seven meters. Due to their slow growth rate and late sexual maturity (around 150 years), they are particularly vulnerable to overfishing and other threats. Researchers say the longevity of Greenland sharks has conservation implications, as they may still be recovering from past overfishing.”As the world’s workers let capitalism continue, all we can do is watch more life on Earth disappear, the environment be poisoned, species go extinct, and everything being sacrificed on the altar of profit. Not only is our own species suffering and dying, but the beauty and wonder of life on Earth as a whole is being destroyed.
Right now they are killing thousands of donkeys, camels, wild pigs, carps fish, for industrial production to produce profits, and in order to eliminate one species and to keep another one to produce profits.
Market system is controlling everything and peoples are mentally living in the clouds, and a bunch of peoples are negating the climate disaster and ecological disaster singing the lyrics of the capitalist class, similar to the anti vaccines fanatics
In the Caribbean wild pigeons have been completely eliminated, they do not fly from the continents into the island to lay their eggs any more, their presence produced certain ecological and agricultural benefits.
Bats are being killed and they are beneficial for agriculture.
There is a shortage of bees and they are beneficial for the plants and they produce honey bees.
The nationalist wall built between Mexico and the USA is producing ecological disaster, animal must cross both sides of the border and a bunch of nationalists do not care about it, their piece of fabric known as flag is more important than the earth
Herons are being killed and they are beneficial for other animals , specially cows and horses
Seagulls are being killed and they have ecological benefits over the earth and the seas
Sea corral are dying and they have been removed in order to bring big tourists ships to the ports and that is producing an ecological disaster and they were used by other animals to lay their eggs and to reproduce themselves.
We are just a bunch of ignorants pretending to be civilized . The Indians who were called savages knew more than anybody about the earth, the animals, the forests and human beings, they only took what they needed from the earth, the loved the earth, agriculture and animals, as soon as the settlers colonizer arrived they destroyed everything including human beings
Yes. Columbus himself started exterminating the native peoples as soon as he landed. Nearly all the “heroes” who have statues to themselves today were sociopathic killers.
There were some nuts that for childish pleasure were knocking down the eagles nests They are just ignorants
There is a man in Spain that is investing his saving account to reproduce the eagles and the hawks and when they are matured he let them fly away
He knows about the ecological balance between birds, earth and human beings
Human dominionism arose with class society. From owning and making slaves of fellow animals, humans moved to owning and making slaves of each other. The first division of wealth arose with “live stock”, which human slaves also were. The first coins bore the imprint of cattle, and human slaves too were called chattels.
Answering questions from an Animal Equality group:
What do you wish will have changed for animals by the year 2050?
A world socialist revolution will have abolished capitalism: the system of exploitation, buying and selling, money and profit. With the profit system abolished, nothing will stand in the way of reversing ecological damage and fully implementing animal conservation tasks and projects. No longer limited by the system of money, these projects will be able to freely proceed. The removal of human exploitation will realise greater understanding of nonhuman sensibilities, and leisure will favour human education and progress in sensibility toward fellow animals.
How have the animals been freed from farms and abattoirs?
With the expropriation of the capitalist class will come the freeing of production from the profit motive. Between now and then, the number of ethical vegetarians will also have increased, a process already begun. The health risks of meat-eating will not be something a truly free humanity would wish further to expose itself to. Meat-eating will not fade away immediately, but will gradually do so – however, with no more buying and selling and no more profit system, factory farming will disappear much quicker than “organic” animal farming, which will also, if later, vanish. The horrors of capitalist animal exploitation will be remembered with repugnance and disgust, as will the horrors of today’s vivisection labs. Both will disappear. Humans, who domesticated fellow animals as “livestock” in the first place, could initiate rebreeding those animals back to their original natural forms. With less land required for farming, following the abolition of capitalism, forests could be replanted for animals to inhabit and live in freedom.
What does their new world look like?
A socialist world for fellow animals will be a happy one wherein humans will leave them alone to enjoy their own lives, which is what humans will also be doing. With the race for profits being a thing of the past, there will be no point in poisoning the environment, dumping toxins in rivers, etc. The land could be made very much greener. Motorised traffic could be phased out, now that people are no longer rushing every day to places of wage-slave labour, where they hated having to go. Railways, however, using clean forms of power, would replace the traffic-congested roads of today. No one would need to be rushing insanely about as we are today under capitalism.
With freedom to develop mutually beneficial relations and friendships with other animals where wished for, the human experience too will be radically transformed as never before, making this world a wonderful place to live, for all.BEASTS OF BURDEN: Capitalism, Animals & Communism. Classic anonymous pamphlet. (NOT another reformist “rights” pamphlet!)
A Marxian contribution without the vegetarianism :
Yes. But if we are thinking of the relationship of humans with fellow animals after a socialist revolution, we would expect real meaningful changes to develop over time. Humans will have come into their own as a species and the psychology of exploitation, mastery and conquest which class society produces we can expect to fade more and more as time progresses post-revolution toward nature in its entirety. We will continue to transform our environment, but with the respect of free beings, not at the behest any more of profiteering gangsters.
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