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Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live
CBS ^ | JANUARY 1, 2023 / 7:29 | SCOTT PELLEY

Posted on 01/02/2023 1:55:07 PM PST by cuz1961

In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund.

In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on this New Year's Day, the population is 8 billion. Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live. The scientists you're about to meet say the Earth is suffering a crisis of mass extinction on a scale unseen since the dinosaurs.

We're going to show you a possible solution, but first, have a look at how humanity is already suffering from the vanishing wild.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: enviroment; fakescience; scottpelley; topmen; wwf
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To: Nifster

Personally mass extinction is not one of my worries.

Mass inflation, however, is quite another matter!


101 posted on 01/02/2023 5:00:18 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cuz1961

I’ve seen all the “science” I wanna see from these morons during the past 2-3 years. Enough to last me the rest of my life.
They can ALL go piss up a stump in the middle of a Maine winter...


102 posted on 01/02/2023 5:00:57 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: OldGoatCPO

Well; if they’d just let covid run it’s course...


103 posted on 01/02/2023 5:01:35 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dirtymac

Which Tyson?

The one who talks your ear off or the one who bites it off?


104 posted on 01/02/2023 5:02:52 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: F450-V10

All one had to do was to look at a globe and see just where it was open: over the POLES!

Polar bears and penguins and seals would need sunscreen, but few humans.


105 posted on 01/02/2023 5:16:23 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Disambiguator

Haha...made me laugh.


106 posted on 01/02/2023 5:16:45 PM PST by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: rarestia

...and then going - WHERE?


107 posted on 01/02/2023 5:18:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

biomass = an estimate of the weight of life forms


108 posted on 01/02/2023 5:21:33 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: roadcat

“If liberals were concerned about overpopulation, they wouldn’t be stuffing more humans into the USA.”

Very good point about their incessant hypocrisy on every issue under the sun.


109 posted on 01/02/2023 5:31:58 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
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To: Elsie

The people moving to the less populated inland areas of the west are all fleeing the sh!thold cities they created.

The people filling up the world are all third-worlders. Every first-world nation has a birth rate below replacement or close to that.


110 posted on 01/02/2023 5:34:05 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beake)
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To: Redmen4ever

So on planets with no life; there is no biomass?


111 posted on 01/02/2023 5:45:19 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How many illegal immigrants does it take before our system cant sustain it?


112 posted on 01/02/2023 5:46:49 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: cuz1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers. We can’t save the people either...


113 posted on 01/02/2023 7:21:23 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Truthsearcher

That assumes that people will go back to productive work. All this tech surveillance serves none but the Evil politicians. It will implode and the global population will start to decline precipitously.


114 posted on 01/02/2023 9:52:02 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Elsie

Tonight’s drama was a Screech Owl who luckily glanced off my PT Loser’s bizarre fender.

Brought it home, did triage and finally, the little idiot took off.

Why it flew into my fender is a mystery.

It really creeps me out when they do that 360 degree head turn.

*ick*


115 posted on 01/02/2023 9:56:08 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Phoenix8
Haven’t you noticed the drop in all sorts of wildlife??? Bees? bats? Frogs?

Nope.

But that is because I live in the country.

116 posted on 01/02/2023 10:05:51 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Elsie

google “biomass definition” and find out for yourself (turns out there are two meanings, one of which applies to this thread)


117 posted on 01/02/2023 11:27:09 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Watch out for things that are “true” because liberals believe them to be true.

The percentage of advanced animal life represented by wild animals has been falling, but that doesn’t mean advanced animal life or life in general is going extinct.

We have lots of zoos and wildlife refuges to project biodiversity into the future. The rate of extinction of individual species is pretty low, even lower than what it was before we humans arrived.

There was a modest uptick in extinctions when humans (Europeans) started on the age of exploration, and inadvertently introduced cats and such to long-isolated island eco-systems. I’m sorry, but we didn’t think to put some dodo birds into a zoo.

People who believe we are part of a mass extinction today are playing to the culture of death that is contemporary liberalism. They won’t be happy until everybody is addicted to psychoactive drugs, suffers from clinical depression, has mutilated their body and, ultimately, has committed suicide.

Just to show you how cock-eyed the mass-extinctionists are, they bemoan the loss of the Rocky Mountain locust. Yes, it’s true, we haven’t had a locust swarm in this country for more than a century now. It is generally believed the end of locust swarms is due to our subjecting the east slopes of the Rocky Mountains to cattle grazing. Cattle grazing disrupt the irregular pattern of incubation of locust larvae that periodically gave rise to locust swarms.

Ending locust swarms is a good thing. Not a bad thing. Ditto ending or curtailing diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

By converting most of the world into a garden, that formerly was mostly jungles, swamps, deserts and desolate prairies, we have made the world much more habitable for ourselves and the life forms that sustain us and give us joy; and, yes, this includes preserving bio-diversity in zoos, wildlife preserves and so forth.


118 posted on 01/02/2023 11:58:57 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Yes my family has a farm in S Ky. Ponds are nearly devoid of frogs, they were so choked with frogs about a decade ago they enraged my son -in -law who went outside at 3am and shot his gun to try and make them be quiet because he couldn’t sleep. Maybe 1/20 the frogs today. Birds are way, way down. Bats… insects..don’t you remember having to clean your windscreen constantly back in the day in the summer (how can people not remember this ???) because there were SO many insects their guts would get all over the glass Did you grow up in a city then move to a farm recently? I’ve lived on or near farms since 1974 and the decline in wildlife is obvious and alarming (except deer and ticks especially ticks). https://theconversation.com/declining-bat-populations-are-a-cause-for-human-concern-190498 https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/ https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-insect-populations-are-plummeting-and-why-it-matters https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reptiles-numbers-dwindling/ https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2021/06/241121-honey-bee-annual-loss-survey-results.php 4-A8-E9-FEC-E7-F2-4-EF8-990-E-1-D31-E0-A3-FA70
119 posted on 01/03/2023 3:46:55 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Redmen4ever
google “biomass definition”


biomass
 
bī′ō-măs″

noun

  1. The total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area.
  2. Plant material, vegetation, or agricultural waste used as a fuel or energy source.
  3. The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc.
  4. Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose.
  5. plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
  6. the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

120 posted on 01/03/2023 4:26:08 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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