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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by patagonia on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:44AM (#18337770)
Recent article reported: “So many animals will go extinct in the next 50 years that it will take Earth at least 3 million years to recover”

Add to that the impacts of the technosphere (the artifacts of humanity which would not have existed in our absence) which was reported to be 30 trillion tons in 2016. Our impact to climate. Our impact to geography.

Sure, in all likelihood there will be a big round ball hanging around in our solar system despite humanity’s best efforts. But that seems like a distinction without a difference. To say the argument is disingenuous would be generous.

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by ProAm on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:30PM (#18338423)
99.9% of all creatures who have existed on earth are extinct. [1] The world will continue to move on just as it always has, humans maybe not, but it would just be nature taking it's course.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/extinction/massext/statem...

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