According to a study, we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. "Species are disappearing 100 times more quickly than normal," etc. etc.

cool.

So humans caused or indirectly caused the Sixth Mass Extinction event that we're undertaking?

Cool.

As long as i'm dead by the time that gets really bad, i couldn't care less.

At 6/19/15 05:25 PM, NippleManOfMilk wrote:

At 6/19/15 05:13 PM, someaveragechap wrote: So humans caused or indirectly caused the Sixth Mass Extinction event that we're undertaking?

No, we didn't cause it. WE ARE IT! WE'RE THE FINAL ANGEL!

DUN DUN DUN!

Does this mean that the fate of humanity rests on a frail teen struggling with abandonment issues, depression and sexual frustration so vast that he fapped over a comatose girl? Fuck.

But seriously, it's sad that pandas are too sexually shy to procreate their own species. And our bad for wiping out the dodo birds and bringing rabbits to Australia. Africanized Bees? That's our bad too. I'm sure the list goes on and on.

And I didn't even get into the effects of industrailization.

meh. we'll adapt.

c00l.
*grabs popcorn*

What if I told you...

...that extinction is a necessary part of evolution and "survival of the fittest."

At 6/19/15 08:41 PM, Zachary wrote: How is it possible to declare we are in a mass extinction BEFORE it actually happens? Seems like sensationalist garbage to me.

We are in the middle of it not the before. Previous mass extinction events occurred over millions of years. Humans have managed to kill off thousands of species in a measly few dozen thousands of years. We're going for a high score with climate change so there's a plus.

1. 896,785,124,985,122----HUM
2. 785,255,965,554,147----AST
3. 511,566,872,314,098----ICE

Yeah once christopher lee died I kinda figured all life was fucked

Now my real life pokedex will never be complete :(

They always talk about this stuff. It won't matter much because most of us won't be around to worry about that kind of shit.

At 6/19/15 10:33 PM, Vinnyy wrote:

At 6/19/15 09:59 PM, SneakyGameBoy wrote: They always talk about this stuff. It won't matter much because most of us won't be around to worry about that kind of shit.

I like this mentality.

We should leave this problem for the people in the future to deal with. Since we won't be around when this becomes a serious issue, it doesn't concern us in the slightest.

Exactly. It's sort of like hand-me-downs except with responsibility for the human race and an entire new generations have to deal with a problem that we knew was gonna happen thousands and thousands of years from now so we just hand it over to them because we're old and dead. lol

At 6/19/15 09:58 PM, BlueHippo wrote: Now my real life pokedex will never be complete :(

Pleb, I've already started collecting shinies.

At 6/19/15 10:59 PM, Ryanson wrote:

At 6/19/15 09:58 PM, BlueHippo wrote: Now my real life pokedex will never be complete :(

Pleb, I've already started collecting shinies.

I own the last two dragons (1 male and 1 female). You must give me your life savings in order to see them.

Humans are why we can't have nice things

it will be fun to disappear altogether

At 6/20/15 08:48 AM, mysticvortex13 wrote:

At 6/19/15 08:36 PM, Raab wrote: What if I told you...

...that extinction is a necessary part of evolution and "survival of the fittest."

i'd tell you that's no longer the case. back before we had genetic modification and other feats of science like this, that might have been true.. but nature no longer has control over the world. we are the future.

we have the power to artificially manipulate the course of evolution now, i suggest we use it.

What if I told you...
...that "Nature" won't exist any more if it is all monitored and controlled by mankind.

At 6/19/15 08:41 PM, Zachary wrote: How is it possible to declare we are in a mass extinction BEFORE it actually happens? Seems like sensationalist garbage to me.

Keep talking like that asshole and mods will be the first race to be extinct.

Stanford has been publishing this study for several years now.

You should read the Stanford press release here:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/mass-extinction-ehrlich-061915.html

All of your stupid and meaningless questions will be answered if you actually read deep into this article instead of replying to SentForMe's thread title and the handful of words you picked up after dragging your eyes over one editorialized article.

Ain't the White Rhino extinct now? Hasn't it been so for that past couple weeks?

Fuck man, why did my sister have to have kids? Dummy, now all my nieces, and nephews will be here for the blame. Instead you fuck-turds.

At first I read this as a variation of "there will be 6 more mass effects"

and I was really scared

People have always predicted that the world will end or something like that, but it has never actually happened in the history of humans.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

I've given up on helping the environment at this point, because nobody else cares. So I just sit and wait for death to come for us.