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> It's been sustainable to this point You aren't serious, right? We are literally in the midst of the 6th great mass extinction in the history of the planet d
by StanislavPetrov 9y ago
> It's been sustainable to this point
You aren't serious, right? We are literally in the midst of the 6th great mass extinction in the history of the planet due directly to human population.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-s...
The ecosystem is literally being crushed under the masses of humanity. 75% of flying insects are gone.
http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-flying-bugs-climate-change-pesticides-population-decline-2017-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-fly...
Bird populations are massively down.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-finds-north-american-skies-quieter-by-15-billion-fewer-birds/article31876053/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-fi...
Human beings are being literally infused with hundred of industrial chemicals that we saturate the environment with - and have no idea how they are effecting us.
https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifestyle-health-endocrine-disruptors.html#4451664bbb91 https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifest...
Runoff from the massive farming operations required to keep so many billions alive is causing hypoxia in our waterways, further destroying our planet.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html
This doesn't even touch on the other ways human overpopulation is destroying the habitability of our planet (global warming, deforestation, massive islands of plastic and garbage growing in our seas). You have to be incredibly uniformed or truly delusional if you don't understand that we are massively overpopulated.