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Earth's sixth mass extinction event already under way, scientists warn
- AnsemWise 9y agoMakes me want to cry.
- Grangar 9y agoTo think this article is from 2016...
- mdekkers 9y agoWhen it will come down to the last 1000 people on this planet, 400 will be arguing about whether or not humans really have a bad impact on this planet; 50 will be trying to lord it over the rest, using another gullible 150 as muscle; 200 will be looking for ways to turn a profit out of the situation; and the rest will weeping somewhere in a corner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
- Tepix 9y agoWhat about the guy that will be building a rocket to get off this rock?
- mdekkers 9y agoI predict Elon Musk will be fine, whatever happens...
- JPLeRouzic 9y ago<humour> I belong to the group of 400! </humour> If we look at WP [0] there were way more than five extinctions in the past, but each extinction is preceded by an explosion of new life forms, and that is what define many "geologic periods": * Great Oxygenation Event: Multicellular life forms emerge. * End-Ediacaran extinction led to the Cambrian explosion: Animal phyla appears * Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event led to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Pelagic life forms colonize reefs and shallow waters. * Ordovician–Silurian extinction events led to Silurian period which saw multi-cellular life moving to earth, not only on sea. On sea, fishes and sharks were now thriving. * Plants thrived in Devonian after most Silurian life disappeared in another "extinction". * etc, etc [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#List_of_extinction_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#List_of_extin... (edited)
- mdekkers 9y agoYep, I think that was George Carlins' point in the linked video. The planet will be fine, it's the people that are fucked.
- owebmaster 9y agoI can't hold my laugh when I see this kind of article AND repercussion. The funniest part is that most people who believe it downplay religious thoughts and dogmas but is this any different? This is a genesis flood fairytale from any angle I see it.
- aplummer 9y agoReally you find people dedicating their life to submitting work to peer review... funny? Can't wait to see your contradicting research, comprehensive enough you might get a nobel prize. To be clear, the process here is the opposite of dogma.
- owebmaster 9y agoYour researchers look a lot like ancient priests to me and it is acceptable to find excessive religious believers funny, so I think it is this the case. Do you believe our current science would be something more than shamanism compared to Science (or another new religion) in the year of 3017?
- aplummer 9y agoThat is completely different because religion is not based on testable and provable increments increases in knowledge, rather superstition and guesswork. You clearly do not understand the scientific method. You'll notice that rockets successfully manage to get to the moon, vaccines successfully save millions of lives. Obviously you are a fundamentalist with a point to prove so I'll stop arguing.
- owebmaster 9y ago> That is completely different because religion is not based on testable and provable increments increases in knowledge, rather superstition and guesswork. You clearly do not understand the scientific method. This is prejudice against others faith, religion AND science. Alchemy was the science back then and the base of current chemistry but is religious work, that also increases people's knowledge. I could explain the same with Buddhism and how its knowledge could save billions of lives, but I'm not a religious guy (much less fundamentalist). Just skeptical.