Some scientists are saying that we have entered the sixth phase of mass extinction of animal species, the biggest since the dinosaur days. They add that this sixth extinction is likely–due to climate change, etc.–to also take out the human race.
For the original scientific article, go here. Notice: One of the authors is Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, which in 1968 predicted global apocalypse by 1995. (For a list of his failed predictions see this. See also The Bet, a book on Ehrlich’s environmental apocalyptic warnings vs. free market optimism.)
From Earth enters sixth extinction phase with many species – including our own – labelled ‘the walking dead’ – Environment – The Independent:
The planet is entering a new period of extinction with top scientists warning that species all over the world are “essentially the walking dead” – including our own.
The report, authored by scientists at Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley universities, found that vertebrates were vanishing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.
In the damning report, published in the Science Advances journal, researchers note that the last similar event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared, most probably as a result of an asteroid.
“We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,” one of the authors of the paper told the BBC.
Gerardo Ceballos, lead author of the research, added: “If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover and our species itself would likely disappear early on”.
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