Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down11
arrow-up186arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareMysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year 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.
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.