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There's pessimism and there's realism. Look at the sources below to see what we are doing to the things we need for survival. We need IMMEDIATE action to stop
by LockAndLol 6y ago
There's pessimism and there's realism.
Look at the sources below to see what we are doing to the things we need for survival.
We need IMMEDIATE action to stop extinction crisis, David Attenborough - BBC [0]
How long do most species last before going extinct? [1]
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction (2015)[2]
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (2017) [3]. Follow up study of [2]
UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species [4]
Barring a massive change in how we fish, there won’t be any sushi left by 2048 [5]. The source of that article [6] and the related study [7] (only abstract, but you can use another source to get DOI: 10.1126/science.1132294 )
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbCR0KSU52g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbCR0KSU52g
[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-long-do-most-species-last-before-going-extinct/ar-BB1aO5Qt https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-long-do-most-s...
[2]: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253
[3]: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/E6089 https://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/E6089
[4]: https://apnews.com/article/aaf1091c5aae40b0a110daaf04950672 https://apnews.com/article/aaf1091c5aae40b0a110daaf04950672
[5]: https://qz.com/856652/barring-a-massive-change-in-how-we-fish-there-wont-be-any-sushi-left-by-2048/ https://qz.com/856652/barring-a-massive-change-in-how-we-fis...
[6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100505032504/https://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/problems_fishing/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100505032504/https://wwf.panda...
[7]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090311004650/http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5800/787 https://web.archive.org/web/20090311004650/http://www.scienc...