Extinction

A team of American scientists have conducted a study which suggests that we are entering the sixth great mass extinction. Species are disappearing 100 faster than they would do naturally.

Previous extinctions progressed at a much slower rate and were due to natural causes. This latest one is man made.

Scientists say that humans are causing a “global spasm of biodiversity loss” which will inevitable lead to a great mass extinction of many animal species. If they are right, then this will happen within three generations.

Of course, we as humans are living in a chain which depends on these species to survive. So unless something is done to halt it, the consequences for the human race are obvious. Are we as a species so crazy that we don’t realise that we have set in motion are own demise?