Posted on 07/10/2017 8:15:12 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Earth undergoing sixth 'mass extinction' as humans spur 'biological annihilation' of wildlife
Chris Graham 11 July 2017 • 3:34am
The Earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction, with scientists warning that the “biological annihilation” of wildlife is "more severe than perceived".
Blaming the overpopulation and over-consumption of humans, the researchers said the world had a window of about 20-30 years at most to tackle the crisis.
"Earth is experiencing a huge episode of population declines and extirpations" - when a species is wiped out in a particular location - "which will have negative cascading consequences on ecosystem functioning and services vital to sustaining civilisation," the researchers wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We describe this as a 'biological annihilation' to highlight the current magnitude of Earth's ongoing sixth major extinction event."
In the study, researchers from Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico examined the population trends of 27,600 vertebrate species such as birds, amphibians, mammals, and reptiles, including a detailed analysis of 177 species of mammals.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Is anything we can tax to help?
This extinction is of the political variety. Within 8 years the entire leftist plague will be exterminated.
Guess they realized their glo-bull warming scam was failing them.
From your mouth to God’s ears.
Dumb libs. Glyphosate poisoning will kill them first.
Pythons in FL.
Bears in cars and houses.
Deer wrecking thousands of cars.
Panthers in populated areas.
Bullshit in the media.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE - AGAIN!!!
Better go hunting for ‘em before they go extinct!!! ;)
I just bought some LED light bulbs, my neighbor drives a Prius, and California is building that bullet train thingy.
We're good.
Monkeys stealing the deer corn in Florida
Giant snakes stealing the fish caught by fishermen
[[Blaming the overpopulation and over-consumption of humans,]]
The whole world’s population could fit comfortably into one state- Texas- and still these idiots preach overpopulation- We haven’t even begun to overpopulate the earth- and everything we consume We grew or raised and still there is plenty of room where man doesn’t inhabit or touch
Someone should invent a ‘hair on fire wand’ they could make a fortune selling it to liberals
Does anyone know exactly what an extinction event looks like? The last one was minor compared to previous ones and isn’t even counted among the Big Five. Between the Pleisticene (sic) and he Holocene 70 percent of the mega fauna of North America ceased to exist. 10 to 20 percent in Africa, 50 percent in Europe, so on and so forth... This was not caused by man, but simply the planet moving fro an Ice Age to a warm period.
Are they trying to compare what is happening now to that, or even the Permian Extinction Event or any of the others that wiped clean 90 percent of the phyla and species f the planet. They gotta be crazy.
The coming one is described in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Where is the “alleged” in this drivel?!
Hmm. Who is killing the Rhinos and Elephants in Africa?
Native poachers for the most part.
Well, there’s evolution for you. Survival of the fittest and all that jazz. Tough for some species, beneficial for others.
Nobody is going to miss a couple dozen snail darter fish and it isn’t going to affect the environment.
Neither would losing a couple million rich white elite leftist Marxists and progressives (aka Democrats in drag). In fact, that would help to solve the housing for the homeless problems all across the US.
My God, just Hollywood/Beverly Hills, etc, plus Michael Moore’s house and the three of Bernie Sanders, could house tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, and we’ll throw in a few thousand Libyans and Sudanese just to balance them out.
When was the last time you saw a refugee family from Libya, Sudan or Syria housed with liberals? It ain’t gonna happen unless they make them their slaves.
That’s Great!
Globull Warming will kill us all, before the cockroaches take over!
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