![]() I am writing this post because biological collections are having a moment of attention, and it’s been a topic I have been thinking of for some time as an outsider. They figure out when baselines are shifting, and their work keeps us accountable as we seek to stop the current bleeding of biodiversity. I won’t refer to these biodiversity experts as “countless”, because they’re actually a pretty small group of folks entrusted with an almost incomprehensible responsibility: to quantify the biological wealth of our world. We are only aware of the loss of species due to centuries of careful collecting, cataloging, categorization and curation undertaken by conservationists around the world, including indigenous communities, museum professionals, taxonomists, seed banks, herbaria, and other very highly specialized and educated people. Because our global civilization depends on the wealth of the biosphere for our own well-being, this is definitely very bad news for humanity (I usually tend to avoid rationalizing conservation based on ecosystems’ value to us, believing that we have a moral imperative to preserve the biosphere, and organisms have an inherent right to exist outside of their economic value, but that’s a topic for another blog). A less diverse biosphere means the loss of ecosystem services associated with all of the species we lose, and potentially a less resilient biosphere, stacking the deck against us as the climate continues to change and life is forced to adapt. The paleontological community has found that the pattern of species loss is unusual even at the scale of geological time, potentially placing us among the great extinctions in geologic history, or at least a notably bad extinction event. There is an increasing consensus in the ecological research community that the current loss of species this planet is experiencing is not sustainable, in the sense that the loss of some species may precipitate the loss of more, in an accelerating spiral. None of the screensavers on this website contain malware, but I completely understand it when people prefer to trust their anti-virus program and would rather not be "taking chances", as you say.You might be familiar with the concept of the present “ biodiversity crisis“. Unfortunately, some anti-virus programs will still mark it as suspicious because of the reputation of the screensaver's author, a now-defunct company that also released many other screensavers that were supported by adware. There's absolutely no malware in this version of the Living Marine Aquarium 2 screensaver. Got it working but it was loaded down with malware and I had to delete it not taking any more chances, also deleted your website, GOODBYE! Hopefully that can avoid a restart, should it happen again. In the event your computer seems locked up, try pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete on your keyboard, then click the Task Manager link, find the program in the list and click "End task". Or does the installation perhaps fail at an earlier stage, or does the installer not run at all? I know the installer has a red background. During installation, did you run the test for optimal display settings? Sometimes it won't work without doing that. Sorry to learn it's not working well for you. ![]() Randy gobel 5 years ago Windows 10 圆4, Edge Only shows perpetual red screen, only restart will do anything. Living Marine Aquarium 2 downloaded Okay, have Macromedia 7 (as it requested), NO desktop icon, program won't run on my Win 10 圆4 laptop even as administrator.
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