Earth's expiration date and the humans expiration day

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

Earth’s Next Major Extinction Event Has Already Started
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...-1207021200_uk

It looks as if the future of mankind could be in the balance if this report is true, its not going to be the quick extinction like the dinosaurs went through but a much slower lingering extinction, whoever termed the phrase that "Greed is Good" doesn't give a monkeys toss about anyone else but themselves.

The article is a bit off the mark there... Humans have been causing species to go extinct long before modern times. The Maori hunted the Moa to extinction, which starved the giant Eagles to extinction. The Aboriginals hunted the Diprotodon to death, and Europeans, Asians, and Americans wiped out the Woolly Mammoth.

Still, given that we're the only animals on the planet who are aware that we're causing an extinction event, I doubt we'll reach Permian levels (95% of all life destroyed).

By the way, Dinosaurs aren't extinct. You see them every day.

[Moonlight]

Yes I know dinosaurs aren't extinct, I had a leg of one last night.

England's lost world: 421 species - including mammals, birds and plants - have become extinct over the past 200 years

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...200-years.html

If that article above is true then we're not talking about one or two species over centuries but hundreds of them, I'm sure that would count as a local mass extinction.
Add in the lost species from every other country and we've got a global mass extinction on our hands and its the "greed is good" culture that's driving them to extinction.

As always we've got the climate and extinction deniers who are listened to more because they have the loudest voices, its not because they are right that they are so vocal its because they have more to lose than any one else, you only have to look at the Brazilian rain forest destruction to see this greed culture in full swing.