New World Order

Big global news this week. The first unified global taxonomy of birds has been published - AviList, which is a consolidation of existing leading global taxonomies from BirdLife International, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the American Ornithologists Assocation, the International Ornithologist's Committee and Avibase. More from Birdguides HERE. In the Western Palearctic there are about 15 lumps/ species that have been lost from the WP Species List which some WP listers aren't happy about and has been described by leading WP listers as 'a big set back'. In the UK some notable lumps include Hooded and Carrion Crow, Amur and Siberian Stonechat (at least I get a Species level id on this now HERE), Eurasian and Green-winged Teal and Yelkouan and Balearic Shearwater. 

A unified global taxonomy is an important step towards optimisation in birding and nature conservation and will bring unification across field guides and apps, internet resources, recording systems and will facilitate AI programming and the continual development of identification and recording software and big data systems to facilitate land management and habitat creation programming and set conservation priorities.

Meanwhile in other fields of expertise (outside ornithology and ecology) the same kind of technological transformation is occurring and being fed into super computers which are being used to innovate and develop new systems and processes. Effectively driving society forward towards an AI powered global management system.

Interesting that this leap forward in optimisation should occur during the same week that conflict has escalated in the Middle East. A lot of elements of the Israel and the Zionist project represents the spearhead of the unsustainable, nature destroying  and violent Western capitalist alliance that has dominated global systems in recent history. The violence in the middle east drives the arms industry and the transfer of public US, UK and EU money into the hands of global arms manufacturers. Shares in these arms companies are embedded into a lot of financial instruments i.e pensions, investment funds, index funds etc so economic growth is generated as a result of war. It's the same story as we all know for the destruction of nature and the exploitation of workers and other inherent ineffecineces within Traditional Capitalism. The unsustainable systems appears to be becoming more violent as it moves towards end stage.  

The race is on to evolve towards optimisation as decision making technology such as AI powered democratic systems will almost certainly allocate resources, set prices and values, preserve nature and vital ecosystem services more effeciently and rationally than traditional markets and political systems. One part of that optimisation is the self destruction of the existing system to provide the broken ground for the new system to grow up from. We can see that self destruction and demoliton all around us and feel it at a personal level of uncertaintiy as the old system is falling apart, people are dividing, becoming polarised and chaos is building while nature is disappearing. Meanwhile new groups are forming, new orders are emerging, new processes and new systems as people seek refuge from chaos and nature finds refuge from the Sixth extinction into refugia in the same way it took refuge from previous global cataclysms like Ice Ages and Asteriod impacts.  Now nature and her human allies faces down the human cataclysm and particularly the Zionist spearheaded capitalist western cult. Nature wins everytime, how and when will be interesting. 

All we can hope for in the slowly evolving new world order or global system is one that re-priorities values and optimises systems that incentive good behaviour in humans in order to sustain life on this fragile planet- a system that values nature more, money less, meritocracy more, inheritance and priviledge less, narcissim less, community more, Common Swifts more and Taylor Swift less. 

A unified global taxonomy is a step forward in that optimisation for one very small part of that new global system- the birds of the world. We are getting there- slowly !