Posted on 12/30/2021 5:52:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
Ever-growing environmental threats are pushing many animals and plants to the brink of extinction — the scale of which hasn’t been seen since dinosaurs died out, the German branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Wednesday.
The stark warnings came as WWF Germany released its “Winners and Losers of 2021,” an annual list of animals whose existence is now acutely under threat — as well as conservation victories.
There are currently 142,500 animal and plant species on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — 40,000 of which are “threatened with extinction.”
It is the largest number of species to be included on the Red List since it was established in 1964, according to WWF Germany.
“Around one million species could go extinct within the next decade — which would be the largest mass extinction event since the end of the dinosaur age,” the organization said in a statement.
WWF Germany director Eberhard Brandes said decisive environmental protection policies were urgently needed, particularly in the fight against climate change. …
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Deprecate the writings of Proust, will you? We’ll see about that.
The Germans are experts at “extinction”. Otherwise I would have family still living in Poland (Lemberg) Lvov.
We are one solar flare away from ending technologies that we’ve become accustomed to.
One seismic event that would crush economies.
One asteriod, or meteor strike away from catastrophic demise.
“Survival is the exception, extinction is the rule” - Carl Sagan
Only if God willed that. So far, the only thing meeting the description of a similar cataclysm to those is “Apsinthe” (Rev. 8:10-11).
Gen 1:2 “was void”
Strong’s translates to “became void”
Was: H1961
Void: H922
What else is H922 used?
Jeremiah 4:23
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
There’s plenty of geological. And scriptually it is written, but not in the detail of the phyical evidence.
“And the rocks cry out”
‘If natural selection explained how we got here, we’d have tons of new species automatically springing up into existence’
new species do not ‘automatically spring up’, but you already knew that, didn’t you...?
‘Their father is the father of lies.’
who fathered this father of lies...?
Perhaps the most notable burst of new species is the Cambrian Explosion. About 500 million years ago, there was a brief 10 million year period in which 50% to 80% of all known phyla ever known to exist all of a sudden appeared in the archeological record. 10 million years seems like a long time. But if natural selection demands a gradual speciation to have occurred across billions of years, then half of it occurring within 10 million years makes the math of natural selection off by a factor of 1,000. Even Darwin himself wrote about it in his The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. However, he believed that future archeological discoveries would fill in the gaps and prove his theory correct. The opposite happened. It turns out that we learned after Darwin that the amount of speciation that occurred in the Cambrian Explosion (with less speciation occurring at other times) was even more profound than was known in Darwin's time.
The Bible was right. The anti-Christians are wrong.
Since time began to the present time on this planet 99.9999999% of prior species are extinct
What does the grand wizard say about This?
We’d also have four arms. Just ask any mother.
The root of “yom” refers to a period where it’s hot, i.e. the day. Certainly can be our 24-hour day.
It can be a 12 hour period (i guess that means daytime), 24 hour period, or era of unspecified length. Either of those 3 are literal definitions for yom.
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