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Don't be so pessimistic. There are many species that still survive and even some endangered ones that we're bringing back.

On one hand more nations industrializing threatens everything, on the other, we are becoming more aware of the destruction we wreak, so we're starting to mitigate it better.

It's a tough balancing act.




Some species even re-evolve again


Interesting. Could you point to some information on this topic?


There's pessimism and there's realism.

Look at the sources below to see what we are doing to the things we need for survival.

We need IMMEDIATE action to stop extinction crisis, David Attenborough - BBC [0]

How long do most species last before going extinct? [1]

Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction (2015)[2]

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (2017) [3]. Follow up study of [2]

UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species [4]

Barring a massive change in how we fish, there won’t be any sushi left by 2048 [5]. The source of that article [6] and the related study [7] (only abstract, but you can use another source to get DOI: 10.1126/science.1132294 )

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbCR0KSU52g

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-long-do-most-s...

[2]: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

[3]: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/E6089

[4]: https://apnews.com/article/aaf1091c5aae40b0a110daaf04950672

[5]: https://qz.com/856652/barring-a-massive-change-in-how-we-fis...

[6]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100505032504/https://wwf.panda...

[7]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090311004650/http://www.scienc...




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