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The Sixth Extinction

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Someone asked recently what man's greatest tragedy has been. Well, IMO, no tragedy, no millions of humans slaughtered can equal the extermination of nearly all wildlife. The defaunation seems to be overlooked by most humanists.

Holocene extinction - Wikipedia.

The loss of species from ecological communities, defaunation, is primarily driven by human activity.[13] This has resulted in empty forests, ecological communities depleted of large vertebrates.[108][28] This is not to be confused with extinction, as it includes both the disappearance of species and declines in abundance.[109] Defaunation effects were first implied at the Symposium of Plant-Animal Interactions at the University of Campinas, Brazil in 1988 in the context of neotropical forests.[110] Since then, the term has gained broader usage in conservation biology as a global phenomenon.

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The term pollinator decline refers to the reduction in abundance of insect and other animal pollinators in many ecosystems worldwide beginning at the end of the twentieth century, and continuing into the present day.[114] Pollinators, which are necessary for 75% of food crops, are declining globally in both abundance and diversity.[115] A 2017 study led by Radboud University's Hans de Kroon indicated that the biomass of insect life in Germany had declined by three-quarters in the previous 25 years. Participating researcher Dave Goulson of Sussex University stated that their study suggested that humans are making large parts of the planet uninhabitable for wildlife.

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"For the first time since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we face a global mass extinction of wildlife. We ignore the decline of other species at our peril – for they are the barometer that reveals our impact on the world that sustains us."
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tldnr: people suck
 
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calamity said:
Someone asked recently what man's greatest tragedy has been. Well, IMO, no tragedy, no millions of humans slaughtered can equal the extermination of nearly all wildlife. The defaunation seems to be overlooked by most humanists.

Holocene extinction - Wikipedia.



tldnr: people suck
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This is a tough one! And it is no doubt that the article is accurate. It's difficult to foresee any mitigation path that will curtail the declines.
 
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[h=1]Paleo Expert: Earth is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – According to renowned Smithsonian Paleontologist Doug Erwin, people who claim we are in the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction don’t have a clue what a mass extinction actually is. Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction “As scientists we have a responsibility…
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June 17, 2017 in Mass Extinctions.
 
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Of course not. :roll:
 
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[h=1]Another dodgy Earth Day ploy hyping flawed and failed “species extinction” propaganda[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The latest 2019 Earth Day event, the 50th since the first such propaganda event started in 1970, has the proclaimed theme of “Protect Our Species” and offers the usual and often repeated litany of species mass extinction alarmist exaggeration including: “human beings have irrevocably upset the balance of nature and,…
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It's reading responses to threads like these that demonstrate to me exactly how an idiot like Trump became president.
 
Jack Hays said:
Are you admitting your OP is fake news?
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Here's more evidence proving that I am right and you are wrong.

From today:

Nature crisis: Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction
Three years in the making, this global assessment of nature draws on 15,000 reference materials, and has been compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It runs to 1,800 pages.

The brief, 40-page "summary for policymakers", published today at a meeting in Paris, is perhaps the most powerful indictment of how humans have treated their only home.

It says that while the Earth has always suffered from the actions of humans through history, over the past 50 years, these scratches have become deep scars.
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I'm sure you will run straight to WUWT to see watt they have to say about that. :roll:
 
code1211 said:
What do you suggest as the remedy to the problem you cite?
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Are you aware of the obesity epidemic? Do you understand how that is related to the op?

If not, I won't waste my time explaining. And, if so, I won't need to.
 
calamity said:
Here's more evidence proving that I am right and you are wrong.

From today:

Nature crisis: Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction



I'm sure you will run straight to WUWT to see watt they have to say about that. :roll:
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It's part of the drive to eliminate modern agriculture and animal husbandry.

"Land use now appears as the major driver of the biodiversity collapse, with 70% of agriculture related to meat production," said Yann Laurans from IDDRI, the French policy research institute.
"It is time to reconsider the share of industrial meat and dairy in our diet."


 
Jack Hays said:
It's part of the drive to eliminate modern agriculture and animal husbandry.

"Land use now appears as the major driver of the biodiversity collapse, with 70% of agriculture related to meat production," said Yann Laurans from IDDRI, the French policy research institute.
"It is time to reconsider the share of industrial meat and dairy in our diet."
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Yeah because the humans getting fat while the earth goes to pot is a wonderful thing. Amirite?
 
calamity said:
Yeah because the humans getting fat while the earth goes to pot is a wonderful thing. Amirite?
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It was a long and difficult struggle to achieve freedom in the way we live our lives. I'm not about to surrender that to someone else's idea of how and what we should eat.
 
Jack Hays said:
It was a long and difficult struggle to achieve freedom in the way we live our lives. I'm not about to surrender that to someone else's idea of how and what we should eat.
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That's the spirit. There's nothing like freedumb

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calamity said:
Judging by that post, I suggest that maybe you should just be honest and admit you don't give a **** instead of posting all that "it ain't happening" bull**** you find on WUWT. Just saying.
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I try to retain a sense of humor about those things that are truly laughable.
 
Jack Hays said:
I try to retain a sense of humor about those things that are truly laughable.
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Although I find sick irony in humans "eating" themselves into extinction, I do not really find it laughable.
 
A million species face extinction? Time to burn fossil fuels to save them


Ababy-IPCC of biology has just been born

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The new 145-expert-committee has just uttered its first words, and the headlines are Hollywood-apocalyptic: A million species face extinction. Daddy-UN is proud.
Nature is in its worst shape in human history, UN report says
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over one million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the UN’s first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
Naturally, these are estimates from unverified models that count species we haven’t even discovered yet. This is truly a scare-based-on-air, except air is real and has weight, and this isn’t that substantial.
Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, explains how vaporous this really is:
“Since species extinction became a broad social concern, coinciding with the extinction of the passenger pigeon, we have done a pretty good job of preventing species extinctions.”. . . .

Don’t mention the Sixth Great Extinction

The UN team learnt that calling this the “Sixth Great Extinction” was an invitation for skeptics to mock them with reminders of real death and destruction which made their current scare seem pathetically light. To get around that now the blob somehow gets people who were”not part of the report” to mention it, then they can discuss how they are not discussing it. This is the “have cake, eat cake” Psychology 101 rule — if you want people to think of an elephant but have plausible deniability (so you can quash discussion of said-elephant), tell the people not to think of an elephant.
[CBC] “We’re in the middle of the sixth great extinction crisis, but it’s happening in slow motion,” said Conservation International and University of California Santa Barbara ecologist Lee Hannah, who was not part of the report.
Five times in the past, Earth has undergone mass extinctions where much of life on Earth blinked out, like the one that killed the dinosaurs. Watson said the report was careful not to call what’s going on now as a sixth big die-off because current levels don’t come close to the 75 per cent level in past mass extinctions.
 
Jack Hays said:
A million species face extinction? Time to burn fossil fuels to save them


Ababy-IPCC of biology has just been born

UN-Logo-Communist.jpg
The new 145-expert-committee has just uttered its first words, and the headlines are Hollywood-apocalyptic: A million species face extinction. Daddy-UN is proud.
Nature is in its worst shape in human history, UN report says
Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over one million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the UN’s first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
Naturally, these are estimates from unverified models that count species we haven’t even discovered yet. This is truly a scare-based-on-air, except air is real and has weight, and this isn’t that substantial.
Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, explains how vaporous this really is:
“Since species extinction became a broad social concern, coinciding with the extinction of the passenger pigeon, we have done a pretty good job of preventing species extinctions.”. . . .

Don’t mention the Sixth Great Extinction

The UN team learnt that calling this the “Sixth Great Extinction” was an invitation for skeptics to mock them with reminders of real death and destruction which made their current scare seem pathetically light. To get around that now the blob somehow gets people who were”not part of the report” to mention it, then they can discuss how they are not discussing it. This is the “have cake, eat cake” Psychology 101 rule — if you want people to think of an elephant but have plausible deniability (so you can quash discussion of said-elephant), tell the people not to think of an elephant.
[CBC] “We’re in the middle of the sixth great extinction crisis, but it’s happening in slow motion,” said Conservation International and University of California Santa Barbara ecologist Lee Hannah, who was not part of the report.
Five times in the past, Earth has undergone mass extinctions where much of life on Earth blinked out, like the one that killed the dinosaurs. Watson said the report was careful not to call what’s going on now as a sixth big die-off because current levels don’t come close to the 75 per cent level in past mass extinctions.
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Ignorance is bliss. Try a dose of reality.

'We are destroying our own home': UN report reveals nature crisis
 
calamity said:
Ignorance is bliss. Try a dose of reality.

'We are destroying our own home': UN report reveals nature crisis
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Alarmist BS, to which the appropriate response is ridicule.

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[h=1]Update: We Now Have Only 12 Seconds Left Until Climate Change Destroys The Planet[/h][FONT=&quot]From The Babylon Bee. April 30th, 2019 WORLD—A new update issued by watchdog groups on climate change indicated this afternoon that we only have 12 seconds left until climate change destroys the planet. We previously thought we had just 12 years, then 10 years, but the latest update indicates that we have well under a…
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Jack Hays said:
Alarmist BS, to which the appropriate response is ridicule.

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Denialist BS, to which the appropriate response is ridicule.
 
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