Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1131arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaretruthfultemporarily@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67·2 months agoBruh we are in it.
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months 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.