By 2050 half of life on Earth will be gone

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‘By 2050 half the forms of life we know will be gone’ – conservation biologist

"report in the Science Magazine, the Earth is now in the anthropocene epoch. Millions of years from now our impact on Earth will be found in rocks just like we see fossils of plants and animals which lived years ago – except this time scientists of the future will find radioactive elements from nuclear bombs and fossilized plastic."


"The third thing that is striking is we’re losing species a thousand times faster than in the last 65 million years. At this rate within 33 years, by midcentury – that means 800,000 forms of life, or half of everything we know will be gone. The only way we can reverse this is to two things: save nature now, our life support system, and we do this by switching to 80 per cent renewables by 2030. It is a WWIII mentality. In America we have the technology; we have the blueprint. We lack the political will just right now. But in the next short while we will, because it is a matter of survival."

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/358053-earth-humans-geological-age-danger/

 

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For years we have discussed climate change and many of us including myself have poohoo'd the idea on the grounds that the world has always gone through climate change. I don't know if it's an age thing but in recent years I have changed my opinion on this.

The human race has grown enormously over the last century and I no longer believe this is sustainable. The population has grown from around 1.5bn to around 7bn in the last 100 years. This rate of growth can't be sustained and mans misuse of global resources can only be slowed down by reducing the global population. Better use of global resources will only have a limited impact and if anything it's almost as if we are in denial that we have a population problem.