Close to half of all living species on the Earth
could disappear by the end of this century, and humans will be the
cause.
This is the sixth mass extinction
— a loss of life that could rival the die-out that caused the dinosaurs
to disappear 65 millions years ago after an asteroid hit the planet.
This time, though, we’re the asteroid.
At least that's the finding of a recent study in the journal Science Advances.
The study found that animals are disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to and, ironically, humans could be among the first to go for good.
Not since the age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago has the planet been losing species at this rapid a rate, said a study led by experts at Stanford University, Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley.
The research, which comes on the heels of another similar study done last year, "shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," said co-author Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University professor of biology.
"There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead," Ehrlich said.
Humans may be one of them.
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover."
"We are deciding," Kolbert writes, "without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed.
No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy."
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Holy Fucking Shit.
Well there it is folks! We are truly, and absolutely Fucked. A few posts below I rant about how the youngsters of today having only famine war, and rising oceans for a future.
Turns out I was too optimistic.
The poor uneducated superstitious obese drive-by shooters don't even 'have' a bad future.
They have 'NO' Future.
Hell this is like finding out that a bleeping big Comet the size of G-d's balls is about to hit us. Shit with news like this it only seems reasonable to go nuts tear everything the fuck down get shit-faced on booze drugs, and un-safe sex till the cows come home!
Which btw they never will because they'll be ex-fucking-tinct like the rest of us.
What a relief it's all ending, and soon too!
I can't decide which felony to commit first. Oh so many crimes so little time.
Stay Tuned,...as long as ya can.
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