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Although the report paints a depressing picture, Ceballos and his colleagues hold out a slender ray of hope.
"Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations — notably habitat loss, overexploitation for economic gain and climate change," they write. "All of these are related to human population size and growth, which increases consumption (especially among the rich), and economic inequity. However, the window of opportunity is rapidly closing."
Nope, can't happen because we have social conservatives in our midst who will deny everything and insist on increasing any and every polluting activity that they can think of.
So are they "greedy capitalists hoarding all the wealth" or are they "old people collection social security"? Make up your minds, liberals.
Oh, that's right. They're what ever they have to be to fit the liberal agenda.
I said Conservatives, as in the Tea Party grandmas and grandpas sucking up their Social Security and Medicare while complaining about anyone else who might possibly get a government benefit of any kind. Not to be confused with the greedy capitalists hoarding all the wealth Republicans, who are, generally speaking, for all their other flaws, not anti-science idiots.
I said Conservatives, as in the Tea Party grandmas and grandpas sucking up their Social Security and Medicare while complaining about anyone else who might possibly get a government benefit of any kind. Not to be confused with the greedy capitalists hoarding all the wealth Republicans, who are, generally speaking, for all their other flaws, not anti-science idiots.
There is simply no end to the duplicity of leftists. Every time they conflate Social Security and Medicare which are paid for by the recipients with welfare they just show that they are stone cold, deliberate liars when it comes to pushing their agenda.
Or Conservatives. They don't believe in science anyway, so they'll never see it coming.
Unless we change our enviornmentally destructive ways, and soon, I don't think there's any doubt that humans will eventually kill ourselves off. It just a matter of how and how soon.
WE'll never leave this place alive. I ain't too worried.
Unless we change our enviornmentally destructive ways, and soon, I don't think there's any doubt that humans will eventually kill ourselves off. It just a matter of how and how soon.
Tell the Asians, Indians, and Africans to stop reproducing. If you think that there is a current strain on resources and the environment now, wait until there is an additional 2 billion people in 50 years... Who won't want to live in huts, and will want IPhones, cars, air conditioning...
this is just more chicken little stuff to increase the size and scope of government. if the liberals get their way, the government will tell us what we can and cannot do, where we can and cannot go, even what can and cannot think or say.
I read about that as well a couple of days ago. People usually think of polar bears etc., but I think less striking animals are much more important. Bees for instance. In some countries they are disappearing fast, which poses a problem for nature and agriculture. The disappearance of bigger species is less of a problem, not least because humans can replace them. Sure, tourists like lions, tigers and such beasts, but even if they were to go extinct, food supply would limit the spread of their former prey. The weight of the various remaining species would shift, but sooner or later there would be a new equilibrium.
I think there is probably a certain critical diversity which nature needs in order to remain flexible and sustainable regardless of minor changes. But that critical diversity varies a lot, it must be very different for a jungle and a steppe.
In Europe we have lost quite a lot of species over the past few millennia as the spread of humans has destroyed a vast portion of nature. Still, so far nature has survived and even seen a certain rebound, although it is certainly much different than 2000 years ago.
People always think of food chains, which creates the idea that when one link is missing, the whole thing collapses. I don't think that is the case usually (except maybe in extremely challenging environments with very few species). It is more of a food fabric rather than a food chain, so we have to make sure the fabric does not get too thin.
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