Featured book – Anthropocene Apocalypse – Index

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I think the index gives you a bit of a clue as to the content.

Index

 

Quote & dedication

Introduction

My worst nightmare

My best outcome

The most likely scenario

The long term effects of the Anthropocene

The decline in British Wildlife

Extinction of Species – Zambia & Zimbabwe

Extinction of Species – Cambodia & Vietnam

Extinction of Species – North America

Good things

Deforestation & Extinction – Peru

Road Kill – Australia

Road Kill – America

Further adventures in Peru

Heading out of Lima to the Ballesteros Islands

The Nazca Lines and Lake Titicaca experience

The Colca Canyon and that condor moment

Species extinction – Tasmania

Deforestation in Britain & Europe

The China tiger

Britain in Shakespeare’s time

Wales and the brigands

Los Angeles Smog and mountains

The Chinese experience

Modern man

Deforestation of Tasmania

Deforestation in Vietnam

Alteration of climate due to global warming

The argument against the global warming deniers

World population

Safari in Zimbabwe and Botswana

Second safari in Botswana

Sadness on safari

Zambia and flying round the farm

Hull and Urbanisation

Los Angeles – a tale of urban sprawl

Chongqing City

A cat in the road

New research and new dangers

Nuclear disasters

Spanish Field trip

Portugal & the chameleons

Australian wonderland

More Australian wonders

The start of Greenpeace

Mass migration

Australia – still going

Uneducated education

South Africa and the Whale

India – a place like no other

Australia – Cairns

Road kill yesterday

Senseless death of the toads

The Animal House

Natural History Museum

Yellowstone Park

My Davies the Biologist & Mr Tranter the Rural Scientist

Nuclear dumps

Louisiana swamps

Australia and the ozone layer

Travelling around Scotland

Fracking, the Seven Estuary Barrier, Nuclear and Wind Farms

The decline in wild-life in Britain in my life-time

Solutions

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Help wanted – My books – editing, marketing, reading, publishing – collaboration required.

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I had a three part plan for my writing.

Part 1 – I wanted to write into digital form all the books in my head and previous only existing in typed manuscript.

Part 2 – I wanted these properly edited and rewritten to a publishable standard.

Part 3 – I wanted these published and marketed.

I am still working on Part 1 & 2. I have written up and self-published over thirty titles. I have four others that I am holding back for a number of reasons.

I have had a number of my books edited and rewritten to a high standard.

I have yet to fully embark on the publishing/marketing route.

I need help in a number of ways:

  1. I need readers to critically assess my books
  2. I need people with editing skills to help bring the other books up to standard
  3. I need a literary agent or publisher willing to take a risk on my talents
  4. I need someone with marketing skills to collaborate on bringing my books to public attention and facilitating sales (on a percentage basis.

So if anyone out there can help or knows someone who can – please get in contact.

Best wishes – Opher

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Global Warming and a punch on the nose!

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The next time I bump into a global warming denier I am going to punch them very hard on the nose.

I have just completed mowing my lawn. It was luxuriant, damp and muddy. I had to do that because the grass had become so long.

Mowing grass in December in the North of England!!!   That is absurd!!  The only time I’ve ever done that before was when I was living in Los Angeles!

Perhaps the deniers will start to believe now? One too many ‘once in a hundred years’ events.

Anthropocene Apocalypse – One planet – It is about time we looked after it. It’s got to last more than a lifetime.

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We have a planet.

It is situated at exactly the right distance away from the sun for water to exist in all three states.

It has life.

The life is dependant on the atmosphere and oxygen.

The oxygen is produced by trees, plants and plankton in the sea.

The biodiversity has taken three billion years to build up and interrelated complexity necessary to sustain all life in a delicate balance.

Life is fragile. If we change the climate, temperature, biological balance, or atmosphere there are severe consequences.

We are now seven billion in number and increasing daily. We are reaching the number where our effect is global and catastrophic.

We are destroying the rainforests.

We are butchering the animals.

We are polluting the land, air and sea.

Oxygen is finite. Mineral resources are finite. Our rainforests are extremely finite.

To be wiped out by a major geological event, a comet, or a solar event would be tragic. To be wiped out because we are slitting our own throats is madness.

It is time we started caring for the rest of life on this planet, protecting the habitats and creatures that live in them, thinking about the long-term effects our numbers are having, and waking up to the fact that we are going to destroy ourselves.

We can live sustainably. It requires intelligence, planning and compassion. The first step is awareness of just what is going on.

Read my book Anthropocene Apocalypse and start the process. We may not have long!

Anthropocene Apocalypse – Cecil the lion and trophy hunting.

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Back in 1900, when Theodore Roosevelt was out hunting bears, things were different.

Back in 1902 the human world population was 1.7 billion. Nature was secure. The Jungles and rainforests were intact. The effects of hunting (apart from if you were a Dodo, Passenger pigeon or Bison) were not going to drastically affect animal populations.

Guns were quite rudimentary. You had to get close.

Now we have high-power, accurate guns. You can kill from distance.

We have a population of 7.3 billion. The forests are being decimated. All around the world – the Amazon, Vietnam, Madagascar. Some of the major rainforests are now 10% of what they were in 1900. The hunters, with their high-power weapons, go in to the remaining jungles via the logging roads, and shoot anything that moves. Trucks are heaped with dead chimps, monkeys and anything else you can think of.

I have a head full of questions.

By 2100 the world population could be 16 billion. Will there be a single wild animal left? Will there be a single square mile of rainforest?

What world are we creating?

What should we do with the politicians that are selling the forests for a quick buck?

What should happen to the logging companies who are clearing pristine rainforest to make a killing?

What should happen to the authorities who sell licences to the sad hunters, like Walter Palmer, who murder animals for trophies?

What should happen to the hunters who are decimating wild-life to feed their families?

What can be done to protect our dwindling wild-life and conserve our wildernesses?

Anthropocene Apocalypse – A book about the rapid deterioration in the environment and man’s huge impact.

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We haven’t evolved long but in this last century we have increased in numbers and are now threatening the climate and all other life on this planet.

I am distressed and dismayed. I wrote it into a book.

This is the blurb:

For anybody who cares for nature this book is a must. This is written by somebody who loves animals in the wild and despairs at the degradation of the environment that he has witnessed first-hand in his life-time. You reel at the cruelty and thoughtlessness, the stupidity and crass superstition. You boggle at the numbers of this mad population explosion that is to blame. You can see the panic setting in as we career towards an inevitable human catastrophe. Yet it is not all doom and gloom. The passion rips through your heart and the fury saddens you. But also in there is the ecstasy and love of the wonder that is this planet with its bountiful treasure-trove of nature. We write so that it may not come true. This book is not a mass of scientific facts or boggling information; it is one mans view from the vantage point of a long life of what is happening to this jewel of a planet. It is also a book about hope; hope that we can use our intelligence to put a stop to this pollution and cruelty before it is too late. There are ways we can make it work. They are outlined. The way forward is clear. All that is needed is the will to make it happen. If you care about the planet you should read this. It will change your life. Hopefully it will also change the world for the better!

If you want to know what I have seen and thought as I travelled round this world then you might like to read this account:

I am a writer.

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I am a writer. I do not write for mainstream markets, target my books or restrict them in any way. Whatever my mind is involved with or I am inspired by, is given full vent. I do not hold back.

My books are as varied as my thoughts.

I do not write in one style or one genre.

I write.

It is passion that drives my words forward, intelligence that hones them and a desire to communicate that is behind all I do. I love writing.

If you have read my blog you know who I am. There is nothing hidden. I have no writing persona. If you like what I write, the ideas, thoughts, dreams, fantasies, fears and nightmares, then you know everything about me.

If you like what you read you may like to read more. My books are my babies. I cherish them. I love telling stories, using my imagination and crafting my words.

You will not find ordinary books in my lists. I am quirky, different and individual.

There ain’t nobody like me!

Try one and see!

My Sci-fi is under the Pseudonym Ron Forsythe

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Good on the Pope!! About time a religious leader made some sense!

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PopeMe too!

I never thought ‘d be agreeing with the Pope on anything but I seem to be liking everything he said about the climate!

Well done Pope Francis.

He called on all the world, all people, to stop their selfish ways and start to look after the planet. He said that humanity was responsible for the climate change and we should stop burning fossil fuels.

That’s a big step forward! Maybe everyone will start to listen now?

Perhaps the Pope’s next move might be to lift the ridiculous, outmoded ban on contraception. I don’t remember anywhere in the bible where Jesus tells everyone to stop putting condoms on their penises.

The ‘go forth and multiply’ stupidity is creating a crisis for all life on this planet. Between the Catholics and the Muslims there seems to be a race to flood the world with followers and ‘win’. That’s nuts.

Large families are a huge problem. We are seven billion heading for ten! It is not sustainable.

But good on Pope Francis – at least it is a step in the right direction!

Loudon Wainwright iii – Hard Day on the Planet – lyrics about the state of the world with humour!

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Few people can get a chuckle out of abject despair.

 A Hard Day On The Planet

The dollar went down and the President said
Who’s in charge, now? I don’t know, take your pick.
A new disease every day and the old ones are coming back
Things are looking kind of gray, like they’re going to black
Don’t turn on the TV, don’t show me the paper
I don’t want to know he got kidnapped or why they all raped her
I want to go on vacation till the pressure lets up
But they keep hijacking airplanes and blowing them up
(Refrain)
It’s been a hard day on the planet
How much is it all worth?
It’s getting harder to understand it
Things are tough all over on earth.
It’s hot in December and cold in July
When it rains it pours out of a poisonous sky
In California the body counts keep getting higher
It’s evil out there, man that state is always on fire.
Everyone has a system, but they can’t seem to win
Even Bob Geldof looks alarmingly thin
I got to get on that shuttle get me out of this place
But there’s gonna be warfare up there in outer space
(Refrain)
I’ve got clothes on my back and shoes on my feet
A roof over my head and something to eat
My kids are all healthy and my folks are alive
You know, it’s amazing but sometimes I think I’ll survive
I’ve got all of my fingers and all of my toes
I’m pretty well off I guess, I suppose
So how come I feel bad so much of the time?
A man ain’t an island John Donne wasn’t lying
(Refrain)
It’s business as usual; some things never change
It’s unfair, it’s tough, unkind and it’s strange
We don’t seem to learn; we can’t seem to stop
Maybe some explosions would close up the shop
You know, maybe that would be fine: we would be off the hook
We resolved all our problems, never mind what it took
And it all would be over, finito, the end
Until the survivors started up all over again

Photography – Louisiana Swamps, bayous and alligators

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Those Louisiana alligators are heavier than you think. I had to wrestle that one to submission. It was forty foot long and as mean as a sabre toothed tiger. It was almost as big as that spider! The Spanish moss was awesome.

These are some of the places we should take care to conserve. They are so wonderful!