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by Alan B » Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:38 am
Guardian
A “biological annihilation” of wildlife in recent decades means a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is under way and is more severe than previously feared, according to research.
Scientists analysed both common and rare species and found billions of regional or local populations have been lost. They blame human overpopulation and overconsumption for the crisis and warn that it threatens the survival of human civilisation, with just a short window of time in which to act.
The study,
published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eschews the normally sober tone of scientific papers and calls the massive loss of wildlife a “biological annihilation” that represents a “frightening assault on the foundations of human civilisation”.
Prof Gerardo Ceballos, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who led the work, said: “The situation has become so bad it would not be ethical not to use strong language.”
It seems to be a classic example of a single species invading a habitat (the Earth) at the expense of all other species.
But, this time, there is something that could be done about it - unlike an earthquake or volcanism or an asteroid strike scenario.
It really is up to humanity to become more aware and tell the ignorant self-serving politicians and polluting corporations to get stuffed. Couple that with world-wide fertility management and the Earth with all its multitude of fauna and flora might, just might, have a chance.
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by pErvinalia » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:22 am
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by Svartalf » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:28 am
adaptation does not come easy, or fast, especially to already pretty specialized lifeforms...
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by Alan B » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:01 pm
Svartalf wrote:adaptation does not come easy, or fast, especially to already pretty specialized lifeforms...
True. But we have the advantage of being able to be aware of what we are doing and its consequences.
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by pErvinalia » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:11 pm
Svartalf wrote:adaptation does not come easy, or fast, especially to already pretty specialized lifeforms...
Seth doesn't care about that stuff.
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by Rum » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:33 pm
Assuming the place isn't simply radioactive ash, give it a couple of hundred years and humans will have survived in a few isolated spots and 'nature' will be off and running again.
Also assuming of course we don't get into out of control climate change and make it too damned hot for anything.
..and even if we do get through this one day the sun will expand, drive every drop of water off the planet, roast it and finally engulf it.
Not looking too rosy one way and another is it?
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by Woodbutcher » Tue Jul 11, 2017 1:59 pm
We should start consuming our own species. There's plenty of meat, although the North American beef tends to be somewhat fatty.

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by Forty Two » Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:07 pm
The answer is outer space. We need to get our ass to Mars, and figure out how to get humanity off this rock.
Let's create a world where power generation and manufacturing are done off-world. Problem solved.
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by Hermit » Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:19 pm
Forty Two wrote:The answer is outer space. We need to get our ass to Mars, and figure out how to get humanity off this rock.
Let's create a world where power generation and manufacturing are done off-world. Problem solved.
Keeping in mind the astounding scientific and technological progress we have made in recent history I am not confident that we'll have enough time to progress to the extent of being able to utilise Mars as one of the solutions to our problems. In order to do so we'll have to develop affordable transportation capable of bringing back millions of tons of stuff from there. The lack of readily utilisable oxygen and hydrogen is also a problem as is the lack of a shield that would protect us from solar radiation. As for colonising that planet, don't forget that Mars is only one tenth the mass of earth and has the diameter of only half of it.
Without meaning to discourage space travel, technology and all that in any way, I think we need to focus on what we can do on earth in order to ensure our continued existence. The most obvious next step is to forego short term profit at the expense of environmental rape. The next most obvious is to throttle the economic growth that the structure of capitalism demands. That's two reasons why capitalism must eventually disappear. The 1%ers will of course not give it up without a fight, and they have millions of useful idiots to do the fighting for them.
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by Sean Hayden » Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:38 pm
I vote to push misanthropes off the nearest cliff. That should tidy up the place nicely.
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by JimC » Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:36 am
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by mistermack » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:56 pm
On the news today. An attempt to save the northern white rhino.
There are THREE left.
They are taking eggs from a southern white rhino, and hoping to fertilise them with sperm from a Northern, to produce a Hybrid, half northern, half southern.
Seems to me that it's already extinct, and this is just the funeral.
Maybe they are saving cells from the three remaining ones, and in the future, they will be able to clone them and breed from the clones. It's a very long shot. Rhinos are extremely difficult to breed in the normal way.
I'm not sure if IVF has ever succeeded with Rhinos.
Good luck to them for trying though.
I think cloning technology will be the answer to extinction in the future. They should be planning for it now, taking money from every government according to population and wealth, and running a world program for storing dna of threatened species till they can use it for cloning.
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by Feck » Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:30 pm
Forty Two wrote:The answer is outer space. We need to get our ass to Mars, and figure out how to get humanity off this rock.
Let's create a world where power generation and manufacturing are done off-world. Problem solved.
Humans can't get to Mars let alone live there you moron !
You might have just as well said 'Just invent Starships the Teli-porter, gravity control and the Replicator '
Tell me when the manned mission to Mars is happening
I guess colonisation of Mars will happen on the same time scale as our colonisation of the moon happened

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by pErvinalia » Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:17 am
mistermack wrote:On the news today. An attempt to save the northern white rhino.
There are THREE left.
They are taking eggs from a southern white rhino, and hoping to fertilise them with sperm from a Northern, to produce a Hybrid, half northern, half southern.
Seems to me that it's already extinct, and this is just the funeral.
Maybe they are saving cells from the three remaining ones, and in the future, they will be able to clone them and breed from the clones. It's a very long shot. Rhinos are extremely difficult to breed in the normal way.
I'm not sure if IVF has ever succeeded with Rhinos.
Good luck to them for trying though.
I think cloning technology will be the answer to extinction in the future. They should be planning for it now, taking money from every government according to population and wealth, and running a world program for storing dna of threatened species till they can use it for cloning.
Cloning science is a conspiracy. So is mass extinction, by the way. It's all a conspiracy by greedy scientists to get rich.
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by pErvinalia » Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:18 am
Feck wrote:Forty Two wrote:The answer is outer space. We need to get our ass to Mars, and figure out how to get humanity off this rock.
Let's create a world where power generation and manufacturing are done off-world. Problem solved.
Humans can't get to Mars let alone live there you moron !
You might have just as well said 'Just invent Starships the Teli-porter, gravity control and the Replicator '
Tell me when the manned mission to Mars is happening
I guess colonisation of Mars will happen on the same time scale as our colonisation of the moon happened

Trump will make it happen. Make Mars Great Again!!
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