Updated species extinction list signals ‘urgent action needed to save life on earth’

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    Nature = Nature

    Very good; it's extinction or evolution. :)

    Possibly; nature be like that. Ditto.
     
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    Ain't it charming?
     
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    :roflol:

    The natural extinction rate?

    :roflol:

    The extinction rate is natural.

    That's all it can be.

    :whisper:
     
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    ^ Good post.
     
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    :roflol:

    In the area of fantasy/comedy, yes.

    Meanwhile in the ACTUAL world...
     
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    The natural rate is whatever the rate currently is as humans are a part of the natutal rather than supernatutal world.
     
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    Thanks middle-class travellers!

    Thanks for killing the planet with your ****ing air miles (because you simply must have your vacays and your adventures, right?), and for giving us a global pandemic.
     
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    Yup.
     
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    I was just saying to the wife, what we need is a new "the world is coming to an end" thread. We haven't had one in 12 minutes/
     
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    Science only deals with natural events not supernatural ones.
     
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    The planet is doomed. Climate change has momentum which will cause change to continue even after the man-made contributions abate.

    The biggest portents of doom are population growth and economic development of undeveloped nations. Power generation and other contributors would grow >20 x current world levels if the world population all consumed power at the same rate as Americans.
     
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    My favorites are the ones that blame Trump.

    Vote Democrat 2020
     
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    Science is pretty into the religion of its own supernatural events/beliefs however.

    Extinction: Natural

    Extinction rate: Natural

    That's all, folks!
     
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    The planet will be fine.

    Extinction happens - a LOT.

    The globe warms, the globe cools - a LOT.
     
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    No doubt modern civ and the growth of human population that needs resources is causing a mass extinction.

    But no way to stop it. Might slow it down but I doubt it. Its happening in 3rd world countries and anyplace that sells various weird animals and slugs to China.

    Rhino horn is a status symbol in China and they are into conspicuous consumption.

    But our time here is short. New animals.will evolve and the earth will be full of other life again..

    So I wouldn't fret over it. Unless you love to fret. But fret to yourself.lol
     
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    The good news is we still have lots of the same birds here as in my youth 70 years ago. And we got the bald eagle back. Have lots of them now! And got the deer back....we have too many. And we have cougars but they never all went away.

    New species for my area are armadillos, coyotes, and woodchucks.

    All the various species of fish are still here. And a new one. Asian carp. A nuisance.

    And gators. Never had them here as a kid.

    I wouldn't miss the gators or armadillo's.
     
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    What is your source for this claim that all current extinctions are anthropogenic? What do you mean when you use the word "rate?"

    I guess you must be aware that the major mass extinctions in the history of our planet were not caused by humans. The Permian-Triassic event 252 million years ago eradicated 90 percent of all species on the planet when it occurred.
     
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    When I think of humans creating extinction the Carolina Parakeet comes to mind. The brilliant different colored feathers were needed on women's hats! Hunted to extinction.

    Or the American chestnut. We once had vast forests of this tree. And people ate chestnuts. Big business. Its wood highly desired. Then man brought from another country a blight. It wiped out the American Chestnut. We are trying to bring it.by crossing it with a Japanese chestnut which is immune to this blight.

    So sometimes we try to bring things back from the edge of extinction.
     
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    Well, Trump is responsible for every terrible thing over the past 200 years which is odd considering they used to say that about Bush.
     
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    If Satan, Hitler and Evil Itself had a rendezvous, and a hideous beast prepared to turn the world to cinder emerged...

    It would still be better than Trump!

    Vote Democrat 2020
     
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    Any democrat in particular?
     
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    Exactly.

    ANY Democrat!

    Even Satan himself in a pantsuit gifted him by Hillary at one of those oh-so private Wall Street luncheons!

    Non-rapists need not apply.

    Vote Democrat 2020
     
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    Pantsuits in hell. That sounds uncomfortable.
     
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