How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/oct/20/the-four-horsemen-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.

Death on a pale horse is one of the traditional four horsemen of the apocalypse from Revelations.
 A detail from Gustave Dore’s image of death on a pale horse. Death is one of the traditional four horsemen of the apocalypse from Revelations. Scientists have identified four fundamental ways in which the Sixth Mass Extinction is different from those in the past: the four horsemen of the Sixth Mass Extinction as it were. Illustration: Gustave Dore

Jeremy Hance

Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet’s living beings have been purged by planetary catastrophes so extreme they make your typical Ice Age look like the geological equivalent of a stroll in the park…

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