{"id":2949,"date":"2016-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:15:31","slug":"glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/glenn-edney-new-scientific-research-suggests-our-ocean-floor-bacteria-is-a-super-organism-with-a-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Edney: New Scientific Research Suggests our Ocean Floor Bacteria is a Super-organism with a 'Mind'"},"content":{"rendered":"
Are recently found, ocean floor bacterial networks, acting as one super-organism?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Some researchers believe that bacteria in ocean sediments are connected by a network of microbial nanowires. These fine protein filaments could shuttle In James Cameron\u2019s movie Avatar, the inhabitants, the Na'vi people of Pandora, plug themselves into a neural network that links to all the elements of Going back 4 billion years where bacteria have been living in the ocean and creating the conditions for life to prosper on our planet \u2013 evolving the conditions There is emerging evidence that bacteria in the oceans form massive mats connected with things called nanowires. These nanowires allow the bacteria to We are finding out that we live on a planet that is alive and that the ocean is a living being.<\/p>\n Hence, James Lovelock\u2019s Gaia Theory that our planet is gigantic super living organism.<\/p>\n Here is the original Our Planet description posted on the world wide web in 1996: http:\/\/www.ourplanet.org\/original-site\/gaia.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s only in the last 60 years has man created the tools to look around underwater \u2013 with masks, oxygen tanks and more lately bathyspheres.<\/p>\n As we become more sensitive and knowing, immersing ourselves into the sea and becoming one with the marine environment and ecology - makes it possible To address the big oceanic issues, in Glenn\u2019s opinion - it\u2019s about addressing our own personal relationship.<\/p>\n Western civilisation including we here in NZ have over the years become more distant and separated from nature. We have in numerous ways become disengaged Note NCEA -the National Certificate of Educational Achievement in high schools in NZ that they do not teach ecology. It is not part of the curriculum. The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently passing a resolution to protect 30% of the world\u2019s oceans by 2030 At this meeting 129 countries Yet, in Antarctica 24 countries and the European Union agreed to protect 1.5 million square kilometres of the Ross Sea - the largest marine protected area The NZ administered Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will be possibly the 4th largest protected marine reserve on earth. Covering 620,000 square kilometres, and This is similar to prohibitions in place in marine reserves in our NZ territorial sea.<\/p>\n Military testing sonar and microwave tech, even passing through some of these reserves! Plus electromagnetic energy that ships emit. These have been correlated Covering Professor Daniel Pauly of Canada \u2013 who says that there is no fishery on our planet that we could consider as sustainable. In 2004 he came to NZ In NZ, DOC, the Department of Conservation care for many offshore islands that are prohibited for humans to land on and they could in turn be extended The ancient Hawaiians had an understanding that from the mountain top, down the valleys onto the beach into the water to the reef and out beyond the reef There is a belief with ocean ecologists that we are going to lose the Maui dolphins to extinction, because the NZ Government has no will to change the They are found along the West Coast of the central North Island from Northern Taranaki in the South to Northland, just South of Opononi. In June 2014, Set netting in particular is seen as very problematic. <\/p>\n The Maui dolphin<\/a> is becoming a very charged emotional issue in NZ as it appears At present the NZ Government is taking away from DOC, the Department of Conservation many decision making processes and handing them over to the Department We as a people, need to instruct our government to do our bidding to enable 10% of our coastline to be designated as marine reserves and become far more Here in Aotearoa NZ the Te Urewera Park and the Whanganui River have been designated as having special privileges and rights. This was Government sanctioned
\n electrons back and forth, allowing communities of bacteria to act as one giant super-organism.<\/p>\n
\n Pandora\u2019s biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora's interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel
\n back here on our planet: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy sediments beneath the ocean floor, as a tightly coupled living mat or network.
\n \n<\/p>\n
\n for multi cellular life to eventually we humans. <\/p>\n
\n breathe externally from their bodies \u2013 so it is collective breathing \u2013 and that they could be connecting as a neural network \u2013 so it is possible that
\n the ocean floor is a vast neural network or ocean mind, with deep thought \u2013 10,000 years of thought process that we humans may only take a couple of
\n seconds to grok. What kind of thoughts might the ocean be having? <\/p>\n
\n to dissolve into a greater knowing of the ocean - to osmotically take in information.<\/p>\n
\n from natural processes and from our planet as a whole. <\/p>\n
\n Thus students are leaving school not realising that they are an intrinsic part of the web of life within the biosphere. Now we know why the young are
\n disconnected \u2013 they are being deliberately severed from our planet. Whereas Maori children in many cases intuitively understand they are an extension
\n of Papatuanuku, our planet. <\/p>\nThis interview covers:<\/h3>\n
\n or 89% said yes \u2013 and signed. But 29 countries said NO. And 35 abstained from voting. Note that \u2018Clean Green\u2019 NZ was one of the countries that abstained.
\n That NZ could not in this time of declining fisheries and in an ecologically challenged world, mindfully look at this important 30% protection, particularly
\n for our children and grandchildren\u2019s future, gives us cause for concern<\/p>\n
\n on our planet, so far. 1 million square ks will be a \u2018no take\u2019 marine reserve. This is worth celebrating. Yet it is set to expire in 35 years time.
\n Why? <\/p>\n
\n the most significant of a fully protected area. It will be 35 times larger than the combined area of all of New Zealand\u2019s existing 44 marine reserves.<\/p>\nThe following activities will be prohibited in the sanctuary: <\/h3>\n
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Challenges to our Oceans<\/h3>\n
\n to whale strandings and more science is needed?<\/p>\n
\n and mentioned that we need to lock up 25% of our fishing grounds so as to rebuild up our fish stocks. He was criticised vehemently by commercial fishing
\n interests here in NZ, but remains focused and undeterred.<\/p>\n
\n to include fishing reserves around each island. So as to build up fish colonies again and create a \u201cno take\u201d marine reserve.<\/p>\n
\n as one living holistic system. They did not partition nature.<\/p>\nLoss of NZ\u2019s Endangered Maui Dolphin?<\/h3>\n
\n current situation. (34 minutes into the interview ) cut out before we email). Possibly only 44 are alive today.<\/p>\n
\n the government decided to open up 3000 km2 of the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary<\/a> \u2013 the main habitat of the Maui's dolphin \u2013 for oil drilling. This amounts to one-quarter
\n of the total sanctuary area. In May 2015, estimates suggested that the population had declined to 43-47 individuals, of which only 10 were mature females.<\/p>\n
\n that we could lose them whilst on our watch, possibly by 2025 or 2030. In a country that brands itself as Clean & Green, if we lose the Maui\u2019s
\n dolphin this will be a disaster from the standpoint of lack of mindfulness and the precautionary principle. To add insult to this loss it would affect
\n the Maori people, as it will be a slap in their collective face, as their oral history tells of the God Maui, fishing up the North Island (Te Ika O
\n Maui) out of the sea. This loss would be devastating for both Maori and New Zealanders as a whole. <\/p>\nGovernment Changing the Rules.
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\n of Primary Industries, because DPI is more of a commercial concern, based around monetary policies. This is where the government, our elected political
\n servants are taking their own Agenda.<\/p>\n
\n informed. <\/p>\n
\n and is an exceptionally visionary policy. If it can be done on the land (whenua) then it can be accomplished on the ocean (moana).<\/p>\n