Earth has entered its sixth great mass extinction event, it's our fault, and we might not survive, s - Polidicks

[quote]The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties. The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal. The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year. One of the new study's authors said: "We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event." The last such event was 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were wiped out, in all likelihood by a large meteor hitting Earth.[/quote] We really fucked up. [editline]20th June 2015[/editline] Muh source [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33209548[/url]

Oops.

Although this is depressing, I'm sure that our hands in science are working as hard as they can to reverse the greatest sections of damage. Never count humanity out.

The pock-lips have arrived

Someone accidentally pressed Earth's reset button.

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[QUOTE=Zambies!;48008972]Although this is depressing, I'm sure that our hands in science are working as hard as they can to reverse the greatest sections of damage. Never count humanity out.[/QUOTE] We pretty much walked into a China shop and smashed a priceless vase and now we're like oh shit I'm so sorry let me tape that back together real quick, and while doing so continuing to knock over several more vases in the process

I don't know, this seems a little bit [I]sensationalist[/I].

[QUOTE=Zambies!;48008972]Although this is depressing, I'm sure that our hands in science are working as hard as they can to reverse the greatest sections of damage. Never count humanity out.[/QUOTE] Speaking as someone in an involved field (Ecology) - We are kinda boned. The problem isn't really with Science, but with the rest of society - to try and turn things round the whole world would have to get behind some pretty major sacrifices (Drastic reduction in fossil fuel use, deforestation, etc. Hell, we'd probably have to globally institute population control a la China), and there is just no appetite for that. People don't want to give up their level of quality of life, and the rest of the world aspires to the profligate standards of the West.

[QUOTE=Megadave;48009005]I don't know, this seems a little bit [I]sensationalist[/I].[/QUOTE] nah we're fucked

[QUOTE=smurfy;48008997]We pretty much walked into a China shop and smashed a priceless vase and now we're like oh shit I'm so sorry let me tape that back together real quick, and while doing so continuing to knock over several more vases in the process[/QUOTE] Yeah, given humanity's attitude towards things like climate change and the like, we'd be lucky if the guys in charge even consider the possibility of doing something about this instead of just going "eh, let the next generation figure it out" with a shrug and a shit-eating grin.

[QUOTE=Zambies!;48008972]Although this is depressing, I'm sure that our hands in science are working as hard as they can to reverse the greatest sections of damage. Never count humanity out.[/QUOTE] the fundamental issue here is acknowledging that "science" isn't the answer to every problem science can't do all the work for us

[QUOTE=Megadave;48009005]I don't know, this seems a little bit [I]sensationalist[/I].[/QUOTE] sensationalism is a fake concept made up by the martians that dont want us to know we are all GOING TO DIE

For the first time in a fucking decade, I'm crying right now with a taste of horror and disgust in the back of my throat. This is just... [I]fucked,[/I] man. Like, one of those things that makes you question if you're even awake.

[QUOTE=Megadave;48009005]I don't know, this seems a little bit [I]sensationalist[/I].[/QUOTE] Not really, the extinction rate currently is increasing all the time, and only set to go mad once climate change starts snowballing. [editline]20th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Kommodore;48009017]the fundamental issue here is acknowledging that "science" isn't the answer to every problem science can't do all the work for us[/QUOTE] Basically, yeah. People want us to fix it but this isn't a problem we can just shove a bandaid on. It requires a concerted effort from everyone because everyone is the problem, but as said, you just can't get people to do that.

There's so many places we can live and things we can eat, the only way I see humans dying out is having killed everything else first.

Yeah, i would think if humanity was dying out it is going to take everything with it, down to the last acre of land.

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I say we still got another 100 or so years as long as bees don't die out mergefff

[QUOTE=Mingebox;48009029]There's so many places we can live and things we can eat, the only way I see humans dying out is having killed everything else first.[/QUOTE] Sure, but long before then billions of humans will have died. Depends what climate change does exactly to the various regions, but if crops start failing the world over then it will be a mass die off, which is the kind of thing that could very well snowball into us killing ourselves off (Fighting over food, water, whatever) Many things we can eat, too, but not many that provide all the nutrition we require etc.

[QUOTE=Megadave;48009039]I say we still got another 100 or so years as long as bees don't die out mergefff[/QUOTE] Well drone tech is growing like crazy, wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to just stamp out tiny solar bee-drones by the dozen. Coordinated by a computer crawling through the fields I could see that as a stop-gap measure

The re-forestation plan that one NASA person had was a good idea. Maybe that'll lead somewhere good in a couple of years. I wonder if I can get by on hunting and such if it does all go to shit soon.

While this sucks, it doesn't scare me as much as it used to since I know we are in this together.

Who knows! Maybe I'll event something that'll save everyone. (We're all going to die.)

We're basically taking a huge amount of everything that's intensely flammable within the earth and burning huge amounts of it. I don't see how anything else could have resulted from this.

Don't worry guys, MacGuyver will save us.

Change will only happen when your average family has no food on their table, or electricity for their TV's.

I think a lot of people would start to recreate the start of Gurren Langann, where they are in a village under the ground.

My fault.

[QUOTE=Vasili;48009078]Change will only happen when your average family has no food on their table, or electricity for their TV's.[/QUOTE] I'm worried about food but honestly electricity isn't going anywhere. We're REALLY good at making it