Mass extinction on its way!

STEED · 06-19-15, 01:56 PM

Game over people..

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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.

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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

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Originally Posted by Platapus

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

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Originally Posted by August

Don't you have kids?

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

Onkel Neal · 06-19-15, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Don't you have kids?

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

Oberon · 06-19-15, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

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

The two kinda need each other...

06-19-15, 03:29 PM	#3
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Harvs Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Noonamah,Darwin Posts: 769 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	And people seem to forget that its not just humans that depend on the bees work. __________________ *You cannot kill that which cannot be hit.* [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz Liquid cooled NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 TiBOOST X2 in SLI 16GB RAM Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64BIT ASUS MAXIMUS V GENE Motherboard

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Good. The sooner this failed species called Homo Sapiens becomes extinct, the sooner nature can start to recover. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

06-19-15, 02:24 PM	#2
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	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.

06-19-15, 03:42 PM	#4
Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	You only need to take the bees out.

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d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,951 Downloads: 207 Uploads: 0	Taking out the bees will limit the variety of food available, but not be a major threat to survival.

06-19-15, 04:48 PM	#7
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	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

06-19-15, 05:18 PM	#8
mapuc CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 20,535 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	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