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It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, this time caused entirely by humans. Although considerable evidence indicates that there is a biodiversity crisis of increasing extinctions and plummeting abundances, some do not accept that this amounts to a Sixth Mass Extinction.
Climate change is a main driver of extinction, with climate-related species loss of 20 percent and upward estimated under current global warming forecasts for this century. This chapter explains what the sixth mass extinction is and why it is caused by humankind.
13 sty 2022 · Summary: The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity extinction caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, many experts warn that a Sixth Mass...
1 lut 2020 · In addition, the current mass extinction is progressively underway; arising from multiple causes and mainly related to anthropogenic activities, widespread diseases, as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial impacts.
21 paź 2019 · More people find extinction uniquely bad when (a) asked to consider the extinction of an animal species rather than humans, (b) asked to consider a case where human extinction is associated...
22 wrz 2023 · What triggers a mass extinction? How does a mass extinction impact the evolution of life? How does our ecosystem recover after a mass extinction? These questions attracted the interest of both scientists and the public alike.
20 paź 2022 · Indeed, we can see the evaluative component of extinction being deployed in environmentalist movements around the world. The concept of mass extinction features frequently in the writings associated with environmentalist groups, e.g. in the name of the group Extinction Rebellion.
