California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low

Re:California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low by close04 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:10PM (#18912730)

Outside of massive global extinction events is there any record of extinction on the same scale as the one brought on by the human species?

Most records show that as soon as humans set foot in an environment the local species were decimated one way or another. And I'm not assigning blame exclusively to modern humans, it's been happening since the dawn of humanity.

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Re:California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low by astrodust on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:11PM (#18913379)

Maybe when a collision with a planetoid turned half the planet inside out and in the process created the moon, but other than that, no.

We've created a new geological age. If there's intelligent life on the planet a million years from now they will look back and go what the fuck.

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Re:California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low by ams6110 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:53PM (#18913759)

Any invasive species does the same thing to a new environment. Zebra mussels, kudzu vine, etc.

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Re:California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low by close04 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:58AM (#18919273)

Sure but how many other species managed to invade every single other environment like humans managed? Not too many, which is why our impact is overexpressed.

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