Mass extinction on its way!

[STEED]

Game over people..:/\\!!

Mass extinction 'already triggered'

Humans have already triggered the start of Earth's sixth mass extinction, thereby threatening their own future as a species, a hard-hitting new study has claimed.
The window of opportunity to prevent the worst diversity disaster since dinosaurs were swept from the planet 65 million years ago is "rapidly closing", warn the authors.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mass-extinction-already-triggered-180007305.html#KgLIA94


LAST ORDERS PLEASE...Quick before BossMark drinks it all. :03:

[Oberon]

This news does not surprise me in the slightest, but I don't think that humanity will face extinction because of loss of species diversity. Not at our current level of technology and extrapolating forward from that.
Cloning and Genetic engineering will help in many instances, as well things like zoos and such. Unfortunately, the days of seeing animals in the wild may be heavily numbered.

That being said, there are certain species whose loss will cause a major problem for mankind, species like the Bee whose pollination skills are quite essential for crop and plant spread. We could most likely grow crops without bees, not nowhere near enough to support the current population level of the Earth. So that would be a big problem.

The future though will probably give us food that we would not recognise, and would most likely hesitate to eat, actual animal meat will probably become something for the rich and powerful, and the rest of us will have some kind of synthesised protein based nutrient. But, on the upside, hopefully an emigration into an online reality will mean that we can have the sensation of eating steak, even if we're eating some kind of manufactured seaweed.

[Wolferz]

Get in on the ground floor now!
Still plenty of meat on the hoof.

IT'S MADE BY PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE FROM PEOPLE

[Betonov]

You only need to take the bees out.

[d@rk51d3]

Taking out the bees will limit the variety of food available, but not be a major threat to survival.

[Harvs]

I was always told if the Bees go the Earth will follow.

[Oberon]

It won't do a large portion of the worlds population a lot of good, since the reduction of pollination would cut back by a not insignificant amount the growth and spread rate of vegetation. This in turn would reduce livestock levels to an amount which can be supported by manually pollinated vegetation, leading to a massive drop in human population.
In short, they are pretty damn vital.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140502-what-if-bees-went-extinct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGQketQzTc

[mapuc]

It won't take long before some or most of the Doomsdays conspirators will use this as a 100 % prof that they are right.

Markus

[Harvs]

And people seem to forget that its not just humans that depend on the bees work.

[Oberon]

It won't take long before some or most of the Doomsdays conspirators will use this as a 100 % prof that they are right.

Markus

Well, one of them is going to get it right one day. Law of averages.

[Platapus]

Good. The sooner this failed species called Homo Sapiens becomes extinct, the sooner nature can start to recover.

[August]

Good. The sooner this failed species called Homo Sapiens becomes extinct, the sooner nature can start to recover.

Don't you have kids?

[Oberon]

Don't you have kids?

Makes you wonder what we're leaving them... :dead:

[Onkel Neal]

Don't you have kids?

Yeah, lol, screw nature, I'm pulling for the Stevens :arrgh!:

[Oberon]

Yeah, lol, screw nature, I'm pulling for the Stevens :arrgh!:

The two kinda need each other... :03::haha:

[August]

The two kinda need each other... :03::haha:

That's why I wondered about the rooting for extinction.

[Stealhead]

Good. The sooner this failed species called Homo Sapiens becomes extinct, the sooner nature can start to recover.
Recover and then the next species evolves and ends up as bad or worse than us.

[nikimcbee]

Just for you Steed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
:up:

[CCIP]

As long as it's not a mass sextinction, I think we're good :88)

[Aktungbby]

Just for you Steed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
:up:
:har:

[Oberon]

That's why I wondered about the rooting for extinction.

To be fair, we need nature a fair bit more than it needs us, but in a healthy future for both of us then some form of equal co-existence is key. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

To be fair, we need nature a fair bit more than it needs us, but in a healthy future for both of us then some form of equal co-existence is key. :yep:

As long as man remains the most dangerous predator on the planet that is highly unlikely to happen.

[Platapus]

Don't you have kids?


I don't. But The Frau has a herd. :)

[STEED]

To be fair, we need nature a fair bit more than it needs us, but in a healthy future for both of us then some form of equal co-existence is key. :yep:

Good point but in most part the human race is give me I want it now and stuff tomorrow. Maybe a wake call is what we need. :hmmm:

[Betonov]

I just bought a large roll of duct tape so I'm not going anywhere :O:

[Torplexed]

I just bought a large roll of duct tape so I'm not going anywhere :O:

:yeah:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/52/f3/48/52f348791d0d34719d17efb683f00719.jpg

[Betonov]

My favourite was when he duct taped two cars together to make a hummer :haha:

[Oberon]

Maybe a wake call is what we need. :hmmm:

I'd say we've been getting plenty of them but we keep hitting the snooze button... :nope:

[STEED]

I'd say we've been getting plenty of them but we keep hitting the snooze button... :nope:

Well if we ignore the biggest ever one to come then we are truly boned. :/\\!!

[Torplexed]

I'd say we've been getting plenty of them but we keep hitting the snooze button... :nope:

And yet, ironically we invest wwaaaayy too much personal and media attention to the doomsday warnings we should just dismiss as dumb as a broken clock with no hands. :huh:

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/899194/images/r-END-OF-WORLD-large570.jpg

Oh yeah. Keep the Mayan faith, buddy.

[August]

I don't. But The Frau has a herd. :)

Ah now I think I know where you were coming from! :)