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The 6th Mass Extinction Is Further Along Than We Thought
The 6th Mass Extinction Is Further Along Than We Thought
While extinctions on Earth might be old hat, this is the first threat to biodiversity caused by a single species living on the planet itself. And the actions of that species—both past and present—have big, long-lasting consequences. A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences last week concludes that not only is the sixth extinction real, it may be further along that we expected.
“There is wide recognition that time is short for the integrated, ambitious actions needed to stop biodiversity loss by 2050,” writes Natural History Museum zoologist Richard Cornford along with other scientists. “This work shows that time is even shorter than had been thought.”
That’s because nature isn’t one to move quickly (evolution, after all, is measured in epochs). The deleterious effects experienced by Earth’s biodiversity today are likely the result of the poor environmental choices made by humans as long as 40 years ago. Where animals, such as small birds, might experience these effects within 13 years, larger animals will feel the hurt decades down the road. In other words, we are just now starting to hear the canary in the coal mine, even though it’s been chirping for years.
We need to solve this and stop this before we kill our own ass off. I am serious.
1. Make more natural parks that cover large part of forest + oceans + lakes that don't allow human development. Animals need to be wild and have a right to be.
2. Reduce our population to 2-3 billion and keep most people near cities that are self sustaining without harming the natural parks.
3. Bring back as many species as possible that have died out in the past 500-1,000 years. We need to rebuild what we've destroyed for our own good.
Humans can do a far better job at maintaining our planet and that is necessary for our future survival.