“The Quartermaster’s Report – Volume 3” is Now Available Via Free Download!
The Quartermaster’s Report – Volume 3” has just been published in eBook format. Get your FREE download here: https://thisspaceshipearth.org/climate-change/quartermasters-reports/
As longtime readers of this newsletter know, I am a co-founder of This Spaceship Earth, a global non-profit that promotes Crew Consciousness on Earth. We published the Quartermaster’s Report [QMR] first as a chapter in the 2015 book co-authored with Tim Rumage called “This Spaceship Earth” The second volume of the QMR was published in a chapter of “Now That You Know,” which many of you already downloaded last year in 2023. The changes were so pronounced that we at This Spaceship Earth decided to publish the QMR two times a year, in April and October.
So what is the Quartermaster’s Report?
Centuries ago, during the heyday of sea-based empires and the mapping of Earth, there was always an officer called the Quartermaster. It was his responsibility to keep an inventory of all supplies and crew on the ship so that the captain could always get a sense of the resources on board.
We at This Spaceship Earth are now publishing a Quartermaster’s Report on the status of Spaceship Earth. There are more than 100 data points on all aspects of the planet: water, emissions, heat, energy, people, health, extinction and many more. We think we have created a comprehensive look at what is happening on the planet as of the month of March 2024.
In the current world of misinformation, we believe that all of us need to know what the status of the planet is and have a benchmark authority for what is really going on. We promise that you will be surprised by what you read in this report. Good! We want as many people as possible to realize that the time to act is already behind us and that now we need to infuse urgency into humanity’s actions to face the current sixth extinction event.
In Volume 1 of the QMR we came up with our “passively not reversible” list. We have expanded the list in Volume 3:
Note: “not passively reversible” means that the trend can only be reversed through active engagement and continuous commitment to improve and repair the system.
· Air Quality in decline, not passively reversible
· Availability of Safe, Potable Water in decline, not passively reversible
· Average Global Temperature increasing, not passively reversible
· Commercial Fish Stocks in decline, not passively reversible
· Extreme Weather Events increasing, not passively reversible
· Forced Displacement of people increasing, not passively reversible
· Global Demand for Energy increasing, not passively reversible
· Global Population increasing, not passively reversible
· Greenhouse Gas Emission increasing, not passively reversible
· Habitat Quantity, Quality and Diversity in decline, not passively reversible
· Human Population increasing (estimated to be 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100)
· Life Support system TSE in decline, not passively reversible
· Loss of Biodiversity and Bio-abundance increasing, not passively reversible
· Population of assessed Plant Species in decline, not passively reversible
· Population of Non-human Vertebrate Species in decline, not passively reversible
· Rate of Species Loss increasing, not passively reversible
· Sea Level Rise and Rate increasing, not passively reversible
· Waste Generation increasing, not passively reversible
None of the trend lines have changed direction since the 2015 report.
Please get your free download today! Please share with anyone you think might benefit from reading it. We would dearly love for thousands of people to read this. It will be hard to read without deciding to become Crew as it is way past time for all of us to become crew members of This Spaceship Earth. It is the only place we have.
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