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Now, scientists say, the Earth is on the brink of a sixth such “mass extinction event.” Only this time, the culprit isn’t a massive asteroid impact or volcanic explosions or the inexorable drifting of continents. It’s us.
“We are now moving into another one of these events that could easily, easily ruin the lives of everybody on the planet,” Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich said in a video created by the school.
In a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, biologists found that the Earth is losing mammal species 20 to 100 times the rate of the past. Extinctions are happening so fast, they could rival the event that killed the dinosaurs in as little as 250 years. Given the timing, the unprecedented speed of the losses and decades of research on the effects of pollution, hunting and habitat loss, they assert that human activity is responsible.
I just wanted to follow up on my other post about CO2 levels. We are killing the planet yet many do not even care to face these facts. Ignorance is bliss.
Which species have been going away in extinction, where can we find this list?
The oceans are getting overfished by mostly the Asians, that we know.
We should not pollute the water we drink.
Outside of that we are in God's hands. We have a Super Volcano that could erupt to maybe freeze the world in Northern America. For sure that would kill at least the USA off.
Then an asteroid could come and end us. Some liberals pray for that day, but again we have no control over that.
Now, scientists say, the Earth is on the brink of a sixth such “mass extinction event.” Only this time, the culprit isn’t a massive asteroid impact or volcanic explosions or the inexorable drifting of continents. It’s us.
“We are now moving into another one of these events that could easily, easily ruin the lives of everybody on the planet,” Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich said in a video created by the school.
In a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, biologists found that the Earth is losing mammal species 20 to 100 times the rate of the past. Extinctions are happening so fast, they could rival the event that killed the dinosaurs in as little as 250 years. Given the timing, the unprecedented speed of the losses and decades of research on the effects of pollution, hunting and habitat loss, they assert that human activity is responsible.
I just wanted to follow up on my other post about CO2 levels. We are killing the planet yet many do not even care to face these facts. Ignorance is bliss.
Oh well.
Obama doesn't want you to scare us, he admonished the media today for being so negative and playing up ISIS which is virtually the same as human caused global warming.
Now, scientists say, the Earth is on the brink of a sixth such “mass extinction event.” Only this time, the culprit isn’t a massive asteroid impact or volcanic explosions or the inexorable drifting of continents. It’s us.
“We are now moving into another one of these events that could easily, easily ruin the lives of everybody on the planet,” Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich said in a video created by the school.
In a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, biologists found that the Earth is losing mammal species 20 to 100 times the rate of the past. Extinctions are happening so fast, they could rival the event that killed the dinosaurs in as little as 250 years. Given the timing, the unprecedented speed of the losses and decades of research on the effects of pollution, hunting and habitat loss, they assert that human activity is responsible.
I just wanted to follow up on my other post about CO2 levels. We are killing the planet yet many do not even care to face these facts. Ignorance is bliss.
This is more caused by habitat destruction on our part, rather than climate change.
I think I am going to go and extinguish my dinner, and maybe a bottle of beer.
so you lit your dinner on fire, and now you are going to put that fire out with a bottle of beer? at least use a cheap beer, like hamms.
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Originally Posted by GTOlover
Only thing that would be out fault is already knowing both the earth and sun are going to go though some major changes and we missed the our window to really try and got off this planet and our solar system is done when the sun goes Red dwarf and we are a little to close as it expands and gets hotter with it boiling off all the water emitting massive amounts of radiation.
i think you mean red giant, as a red dwarf is smaller than our sun and cooler as well.
That's nice and all, but it's important we as species survive at the very least. Otherwise, I'd be nice to not have to fight over the remaining resources or have to leave the planet.
The whole global warming debate doesn't even come close to addressing
or identifying the ecological problem.
Human activity has crippled our planet.
This human activity must be restrained and adapted to allow for the survival
of all species, plant and animal.
Our destructive footprint must not only stop accelerating, but decrease.
That's nice and all, but it's important we as species survive at the very least. Otherwise, I'd be nice to not have to fight over the remaining resources or have to leave the planet.
Hey genius, name me one species that has either 1) has existed since the dawn of creation, or 2) remained unchanged since it's inception.
The one constant that can be depended on about the environment is CHANGE. It is inevitable. This is not up for debate or opinion. No species can last forever. Hell, even if we did find ourselves on other planets someday, we will adapt to that environment even as we will partially adapt it to our needs.
There will come a time that humanity will come to an end, either by speciation or something else. But for us to cause our own extinction though the bilge you all spout is ridiculous. We could launch every nuke the world has, and still some would survive, and probably thrive.
It's depressing how clueless some of you people are....
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