But it's biased toward large animals we can see, especially charismatic animals. We don't see a collapse of the network of life that is a characteristic of the

But it's biased toward large animals we can see, especially charismatic animals. We don't see a collapse of the network of life that is a characteristic of the mass extinctions in the paleo record. “People who claim we’re in the sixth mass extinction don’t understand enough about mass extinctions to understand the logical flaw in their argument,” he said. “To a certain extent they’re claiming it as a way of frightening people into action, when in fact, if it’s actually true we’re in a sixth mass extinction, then there’s no point in conservation biology.” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends-of-the-world/529545/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends...