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The sixth mass extinction on Earth has officially begun and could threaten humanity's existence
The Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2015 | Mark Prigg

Posted on 06/20/2015 12:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, researchers have declared.

Researchers say a new study shows 'without any significant doubt' that we are entering the sixth great mass extinction on earth.

The study says that the window for conserving threatened species is rapidly closing.

The study shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,' said Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment who led the research.

The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate....

Despite the gloomy outlook, there is a meaningful way forward, according to Ehrlich and his colleagues.

'Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations – notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change,' the study's authors write.

In the meantime, the researchers hope their work will inform conservation efforts, the maintenance of ecosystem services and public policy....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 6thextinction; carryingcapacity; demagogicparty; ehrlich; environment; epa; genocide; green; overpopulation; paulehrlich; populationbomb; sixthextinction
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To: Ann Archy

More people killed since 1980 than all of the world’s wars and health epidemics, throughout all of history, combined: 1.33 Billion killed by their own mothers: http://www.numberofabortions.com/


81 posted on 06/20/2015 4:42:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Easy enough. They are sky rats. Everywhere up there. Go to the Pacific North West and find an old growth Kmart sign. They regularly nest in them. Thats why the left dropped having that meme front and center.

Prior to the internet it was easy to hide the truth. The whales and polar bears are easier since no one lives where they are so the left merely says a thing and it becomes so.


82 posted on 06/20/2015 4:42:27 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Why don't they stop having all these conferences in large cities requiring jet fuel galore for people to attend to pat themselves on the back that they care about the environment while reading booklets, papers, and pamphlets and observing huge poster boards which probably killed thousands of trees then they get back on planes requiring jet fuel galore to go back home and act all happy about themselves that they are saving the environment.

What a crock.

83 posted on 06/20/2015 4:46:10 AM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Great posts, links, discussion. BUMP!


84 posted on 06/20/2015 4:49:21 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Exactly. If there is a movement to curtail waste, let’s start with Hollywood celebrities and government officials. Look at the pigs in the White House first.


85 posted on 06/20/2015 4:50:09 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: justa-hairyape
Only human action can stop human action from destroying the planet. And leftist see no logical faults with that statement. How about some humane inaction from the totalitarian statist of the world.

Historically speaking, a totalitarian socialist regime is the most effective way to reduce human population and there simply is no way to do that humanely.

And doing nothing will not get you any political power or steal you any wealth.

86 posted on 06/20/2015 4:51:19 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Um, fewer starved because of advanced crops, three field crop system, advanced fish farming, padded horse collars, advanced plows, compasses, new wine presses. Disease is always a part of humanity. But the level of growth in the period 600-1300, despite Muslim invasions, was significant. If it was "dark" there would have been retardation.

The entire notion of "dark ages" is an invention of secular Enlightenment writers trying to make themselves look better.

87 posted on 06/20/2015 4:56:20 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’ve been slowly feeding this type info to my 30-50 y/o nephews and nieces. Thankfully, they are waking up to the horrors the left wishes to visit on their kids and grandkids.


88 posted on 06/20/2015 4:56:28 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Islander7

Good! Me too. Knowledge is power.


89 posted on 06/20/2015 4:59:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Not quite everywhere.

As modern life and more efficient food production occurs, especially in modern, 1st world countries with mechanized agriculture, nature is making a big comeback.

New England sees a return of forests, wildlife

Not only are the forest returning, so is the wildlife, even the big animals; moose, bear, panthers, wolves...

Still, it won't be exactly like the world the original colonists encountered...

Why?

Those noble Native Americans, peaceful sages of mother nature and her forest primeval; regularly started forest fires to burn down undergrowth and otherwise make the landscape better for hunting larger animals...

Yes, the tom-tom beating, circle dancing, dream catcher making original hippies altered the natural world to suit them, just like the evil white men!

90 posted on 06/20/2015 4:59:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: LS

And it took how many hundred years for all that to come about and bear fruit...literally? Not sure what motivates you to rewrite several hundred years of established history but whatever.


91 posted on 06/20/2015 5:00:09 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

>There was a (minor) spike in extinctions at the time of the discovery of previously isolated islands, because of the inadvertent introduction of more competitive species from the continental mainlands of the world. Except for that, we’re not talking about anything major. Mass extinction is another liberal lie.

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/extinctions_birds_mammals_historical.jpg

Oh, while I’m on the subject, why didn’t the Holy Spirit use his direct line with the Pope to warn us about the vulnerability of native species in real time, so we could have made an informed decision; and, instead condemns us afterword for what was an innocent mistakes?


92 posted on 06/20/2015 5:07:22 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Islander7
This idiot Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, The Population Bomb, in 1968 when I was in college. He warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth.

Somehow I managed to gain weight during this period of mass human starvation. The book has been criticized for its alarmist tone, and in recent decades, for its inaccurate predictions. Gee, ya think?

Apparently, he is at it again. Another progressive alarmist, trying to stir up the need to kill capitalism and impose socialism on the world.

93 posted on 06/20/2015 5:08:08 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate....

This started in 1493 - the start of the homogenocene era when species of flora and fauna that had been separated by oceans, mountains and deserts started being transported and established on distant shores. It has picked up considerably with our now nearly complete global trade system.

Hardier invasive species are displacing native species. There's your extinction. The weak must adapt or die.

94 posted on 06/20/2015 5:10:59 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Norm Lenhart
The sixth mass extinction on Earth has officially begun...

Oh, good! Someone FINALLY filled out all the paperwork, IN TRIPLICATE, got their confirmation number from the EPA/EEOC/IRS/CDC/NBC/ABC/CNN that their application had been received and in turn got a scheduled appointment.

IT'S OFFICIAL! None of these false starts by people like Paul Ehrlich and his mentor, the famous Prof. Chas (Chick) N. Little.

95 posted on 06/20/2015 5:12:13 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: jacknhoo

OMG!!! Evil Incarnate.....God does not like having His Gifts returned to Him UNOPENED! This is why we are DOOMED.


96 posted on 06/20/2015 5:12:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
" Those noble Native Americans, peaceful sages of mother nature and her forest primeval; regularly started forest fires to burn down undergrowth and otherwise make the landscape better for hunting larger animals... Yes, the tom-tom beating, circle dancing, dream catcher making original hippies altered the natural world to suit them, just like the evil white men! "

You'll enjoy this: The perils of designer tribalism

"...............One of Sandall’s main tasks in The Culture Cult is to convince us that what Lévi-Strauss dismissed as “so-called” is really “well-called.” Sandall does not mention William Henry’s In Defense of Elitism (1994)—another unfairly neglected book—but his argument in The Culture Cult reinforces Henry’s accurate, if politically incorrect, observation that

the simple fact [is] that some people are better than others—smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace. Some ideas are better than others, some values more enduring, some works of art more universal. Some cultures, though we dare not say it, are more accomplished than others and therefore more worthy of study. Every corner of the human race may have something to contribute. That does not mean that all contributions are equal. . . . It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Henry’s quip about the bone in the nose elicited the expected quota of outrage from culture-cultists. But the outrage missed the serious and, ultimately, the deeply humane point of the observation. What Sandall calls romantic primitivism puts a premium on quaintness, which it then embroiders with the rhetoric of authenticity. There are two casualties of this process. One is an intellectual casualty: it becomes increasingly difficult to tell the truth about the achievements and liabilities of other cultures. The other casualty is a moral, social, and political one. Who suffers from the expression of romantic primitivism? Not the Lauren Huttons and Claude Lévi-Strausses of the world. On the contrary, the people who suffer are the objects of the romantic primitive’s compassion, “respect,” and pretended emulation. Sandall asks:

Should American Indians and New Zealand Maoris and Australian Aborigines be urged to preserve their traditional cultures at all costs? Should they be told that assimilation is wrong? And is it wise to leave them entirely to their own devices?

Sandall is right that the answers, respectively, are No, No, and No: “The best chance of a good life for indigenes is the same as for you and me: full fluency and literacy in English, as much math as we can handle, and a job.”

This is a truth that was broadly recognized at least through the 1950s. With the failure of colonialism, however, came a gigantic failure of nerve. (It might be said, in fact, that the failure of colonialism was a gigantic failure of nerve.) More and more, confusion replaced confidence, and with confusion came the pathologies of guilt.

Since the folly of locking up native peoples in their old-time cultures is obvious, but it is tactless to say so, governments have everywhere resorted to the rhetoric of “reconciliation.” This pretends that the problem is psychological and moral: rejig the public mind, ask leading political figures to adopt a contrite demeanor and apologize for the sins of history, and all will be well. Underlying this is the assumption that we are all on the same plain of social development, divided only by misunderstanding.

But this assumption, Sandall emphasizes, “is false.” And it was recognized as false by governments everywhere until quite recently. Around 1970, the big change set in. Then, instead of attempting to help primitives enter the modern world, we were enjoined to admire them and their (suitably idealized) way of life. As Sandall observes, “the effect on indigenes of romanticizing their past has been devastating.”

If your traditonal way of life has no alphabet, no writing, no books, and no libraries, and yet you are continually told that you have a culture which is “rich,” “complex,” and “sophisticated,” how can you realistically see your place in the scheme of things? If all such hyperbole were true, who would need books or writing? Why not hang up a “Gone Fishing” sign and head for the beach? I might do that myself. In Australia, policies inspired by the Culture Cult have brought the illiterization of thousands of Aborigines whose grandparents could read and write.

The statistics are grim. Between 1965 and 1975, Sandall reports, Aborigines arrived at one college with sixth-grade reading levels; in 1990, after primary education had been handed over to local Aboriginal communities, that had fallen to third grade. Today most Aborigines arrive at the college in question almost completely illiterate.

This social disaster was the result of specific political policies. But the policies themselves were the result of a moral attitude, one that many anthropologists have actively nurtured. In part, the attitude is a reflection of the Lévi-Straussian “non-hierarchical” view of culture: the view which denies that there are important distinctions to be made between la pensée sauvage and the mind, for example, of Claude Lévi-Strauss. In part, what we might call the “anthropological attitude” is a coefficient of the idea—also fostered by Lévi-Strauss, among many others—that culture is at bottom a “narrative,” a product of “social construction.” And the results of that development—corrosive skepticism, blasé nihilism, irresponsible relativism—have helped to place anthropology in the intellectual slum wherein it now molders."........................

97 posted on 06/20/2015 5:15:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: DoughtyOne
Once these idiots have destroyed civilization, who pays for their pet projects?

More importantly for them, have they considered who will feed them, pipe water to them, deal with their garbage & sewage, provide electricity, keep all the newly saved wolves away from their doors?

I really liked the end of Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six".

98 posted on 06/20/2015 5:19:16 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Erlich is a scientific jackass. He is the classic Malthusian chicken little and he’s consistently wrong over decades of idiot declarations.


99 posted on 06/20/2015 5:22:10 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Reuters: A Child Born Today May Live to See Humanity’s End, Unless… PhysOrg.com: Humans Will Be Extinct in 100 Years Says Eminent Scientist Daily Mail: Will Your Child Witness the End of humanity? Mankind Will be Extinct in 100 Years Because of Climate Change, Warns Expert"..... etc, etc, ad nauseam

The globalists are building a huge fear campaign to help prepare us for the One World Gov leader (perhaps the antichrist exhibiting visual miracles to persuade us) who will step in and declare that he alone can save the planet and mankind.

100 posted on 06/20/2015 5:29:17 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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