Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Sriram on October 28, 2016, 04:07:50 PM
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Hi everyone,
According to this report the Sixth Mass Extinction seems to be underway.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/26/world/wild-animals-disappear-report-wwf/
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More than two thirds of the world's wildlife could be gone by the end of the decade if action isn't taken soon, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed on Thursday.
Since 1970, there has already been a 58% overall decline in the numbers of fish, mammals, birds and reptiles worldwide, according to the WWF's latest bi-annual Living Planet Index.
If accurate, that means wildlife across the globe is vanishing at a rate of 2% a year.
"This is definitely human impact, we're in the sixth mass extinction. There's only been five before this and we're definitely in the sixth," WWF conservation scientist Martin Taylor told CNn.
The report was compiled by monitoring trends in 14,152 populations of 3,706 different species of vertebrates, including fish, mammals and birds, across the world.
Anthony Barnosky, Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve executive director, said it was important to note the report said two thirds of individual animals would disappear, not two thirds of species.
"I don't think I would quibble with the trend they're pointing out. We're losing individuals of species and geographic ranges at a really rapid rate," he said.
"If you keep that up, extinction of lots of species is inevitable."
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For information.
Cheers.
Sriram
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That is very worrying, I heard it on the news this morning.
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It looks unstoppable to me. There are too many interests who want to log, drill, build, use chemicals, drain marshes and so on, and wildlife is the casualty here. Of course, there are local people who protect wildlife, but they are fighting a tidal wave of pollution and destruction of habitats.
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Its sad but true but I'm not long for this world so I'm not really bothered.
have a nice day.
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Its sad but true but I'm not long for this world so I'm not really bothered.
have a nice day.
Just dropping in here with a tangent point - I hope you are not going to displace my position as second oldest around here!! :D
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Don't worry SD, I was in a bad mood. I'm fine now I've had my mashed up apple and custard.
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Only the sixth? I thought there were more? I understand that the first was at the Archean/Proterozoic boundary, the second during the Cryogenian (Snowball Earth), the third at Edicarian/Cambrian boundary?
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Here is a nice visual report of today from CNN on this subject.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/vanishing/
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that was good, thanks for sharing
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Hi everyone,
According to this report the Sixth Mass Extinction seems to be underway.
Right,.......................................... Has Stephen Pinker been informed?
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Here is a nice visual report of today from CNN on this subject.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/vanishing/
I wouldn't say it's nice. On a PC with a normal browser, it's pretty poor.