Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down12
arrow-up1130arrow-down1external-link‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squaretruthfultemporarily@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67·22 days agoBruh we are in it.
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 days agoExactly - current extinction rates are estimated to be 100-1000 times higher than the natural backround rate, which is why many ecologists started calling this the “Holocene extinction” decades ago.
Bruh we are in it.
Have been for years
True true
Exactly - current extinction rates are estimated to be 100-1000 times higher than the natural backround rate, which is why many ecologists started calling this the “Holocene extinction” decades ago.