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> "It's surprisingly devastating," she says. "They've been disappearing in the last two, three years. The rate of extinction is just really alarming for me." "T
by makerofspoons 8y ago
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"It's surprisingly devastating," she says. "They've been disappearing in the last two, three years. The rate of extinction is just really alarming for me."
"This is the story that we're seeing in every single species, we had to go up to the mountain tops to see them, when they would have been all over the island (in the past)."
It's everywhere that the extinction rate is alarming. We are in an era of profound ecological collapse.
- randyrand 8y agocollapse? Or just change? Adaption starts with mass death, even loss of entire species.
- makerofspoons 8y agoCollapse- 60% of animal populations have been destroyed since 1970 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-wildlife/wildlife-populations-plunge-almost-60-percent-since-1970-wwf-idUSKCN12R00F https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-wildlife/wild...) and unexpected interactions between stressors as well as positive feedback loops are creating an existential threat for our civilization (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717301726 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001632871...). Ecosystems like coral reefs are being lost completely- they will simply be gone, there was no opportunity for change. The ecosystems are changing too fast for adaptation.
- randyrand 8y ago60% of life dying just sounds like adaptation to me. Many species will survive, and those species will eventually split into new species.
- makerofspoons 8y agoPerhaps- but the trend is continuing, what if all complex life is eliminated by the damage we are causing?