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STEED 06-19-15 01:56 PM

Mass extinction on its way!
 
Game over people..:/\\!!

Quote:

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-extin...5.html#KgLIA94


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

Oberon 06-19-15 02:24 PM

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 06-19-15 03:29 PM

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

IT'S MADE BY PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE FROM PEOPLE

Betonov 06-19-15 03:42 PM

You only need to take the bees out.

d@rk51d3 06-19-15 04:42 PM

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

Harvs 06-19-15 04:46 PM

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

Oberon 06-19-15 04:48 PM

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/2014...s-went-extinct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGQketQzTc

mapuc 06-19-15 05:18 PM

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 06-19-15 05:20 PM

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

Oberon 06-19-15 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2322482)
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 06-19-15 07:28 PM

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

August 06-19-15 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2322508)
Good. The sooner this failed species called Homo Sapiens becomes extinct, the sooner nature can start to recover.

Don't you have kids?

Oberon 06-19-15 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by August (Post 2322513)
Don't you have kids?

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

Onkel Neal 06-19-15 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by August (Post 2322513)
Don't you have kids?

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

Oberon 06-19-15 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 2322518)
Yeah, lol, screw nature, I'm pulling for the Stevens :arrgh!:

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


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