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Re:Humans have driven more than 1,400 bird species to extinc... by ranguna on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:34AM (#38732898)
I do agree that the ecosystem is ever changing, and saying we are making species extinct by itself serves as no argument, because new and maybe even more diverse species could emerge.

The question is, are new species emerging at the same rate as they were before the human industrialization era?

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Re:Humans have driven more than 1,400 bird species to extinc... by RGamma on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:02AM (#38742732)
The mental gymnastics one has to do to even ask such a question is astonishing. We are reducing this planet's capacity to support any wildlife at rapid speed. Modern people can afford to be blind to this, because it's not their necks that are at stake (for now).

Look at satellite pictures for a start... Farms are no habitat.

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Re:Humans have driven more than 1,400 bird species to extinc... by pfannkuchen on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:37PM (#38749397)
> We are reducing this planet's capacity to support any wildlife at rapid speed

If this is happening then of course it is a problem. Note that I was specifically asking about the species count being a problem. I am not asserting that organism count declining isn’t a problem. The former isn’t exactly a proxy for the latter, since by definition near-extinct species don’t contribute much to the organism count.

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