When will it end?

[brancsikia339]

According to many news articles, humans are driving extinctions faster than newer, strong life forms can evolve. It's sickening. Conservationists are calling it the sixth great extinction. Only 2-4% of species that have ever lived on earth are alive today. Adding to that, thousands of species that are undiscovered must go extinct a year with all the forest clearing and pollution and habitat destruction. I wonder how many amazing species were out there that we never discovered because of forest clearing, pollution, overfishing, among other things.

Here is an article on the extinction rate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/07/extinction-species-evolve

Another article:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121101-a-looming-mass-extinction

 

[hierodula]

I agree. Humans as a species are reproducing and spreading at a greater rate than the environment can support naturally. Whats worse is that most people dont really care about the environment. They litter and stuff and think, oh, its just me, its fine, when in reality millions do it accross the earth. We cant even take care of the land we already have, we dont deserve to force other animals out of their homes to build our own houses.

 

[Paradoxica]

"When will it end?"

Sadly the answer is most likely when there is nothing left to take.

 

[patrickfraser]

Humans are a cancer to the planet.

 

[Mime454]

Long after you're dead.

 

[BugLover]

The only way some people think they can progress in life is by taking more of the things they "need."

 

[aNisip]

It will end when we are eradicated...life will slowly return to what it once was... (not saying you'll get all the species back, but life will flourish....

 

[brancsikia339]

It will end when we are eradicated...life will slowly return to what it once was... (not saying you'll get all the species back, but life will flourish....

I think the same. Unless us humans continue on our path. If we do we will most likely eradicate all life in 100 years. There will be nothing left, and its all our fault. We try to stop, but its no use. If humans go extinct, however, life will flourish and be incredible and prosper fully again

 

[gripen]

I think the same. Unless us humans continue on our path. If we do we will most likely eradicate all life in 100 years. There will be nothing left, and its all our fault. We try to stop, but its no use. If humans go extinct, however, life will flourish and be incredible and prosper fully again

I think that is a little overstatement. If I learned one thing from Jurassic park it is life will continue. It may not be in the way we imagine but it will continue.

 

[Bug Trader]

Well if you can talk 6 billion+ people into changing and agreeing on the right path you have hope. Short of that every american could wise up and yet we will still suffer because pollution spreads, and when countries like China has demolished their eco system and cancer and other diseases continue to spread from it they are likely to just migrate by means of their never ending bank account or by force........We wont know until its time.

 

[aNisip]

........We wont know until its time.

I hope I am taken by Him, before that time.

 

[Orin]

Eventually our sun will expand and the earth will be within it and unless man has moved to other planets with other life that will likely be the end (assuming the second coming isn't first).

 

[brancsikia339]

Eventually our sun will expand and the earth will be within it and unless man has moved to other planets with other life that will likely be the end (assuming the second coming isn't first).

True, but that is millions (if not billions) of years off. We have to worry about mankind destroying the world more than an impending supernatural cosmic apocalypse

 

[psyconiko]

True, but that is millions (if not billions) of years off. We have to worry about mankind destroying the world more than an impending supernatural cosmic apocalypse

5 billions if I am right.

 

[psyconiko]

"In the long run we are all dead"

John Maynard Keynes

 

[Rick]

We will have destroyed this place long before the sun burns it up. I bet within a few hundred years at most. The human population is increasing at a fast pace and it cannot be sustained forever.

 

[sinensispsyched]

"When will it end?"

Sadly the answer is most likely when there is nothing left to take.

Just like from the movie version of The Lorax. Anyone else think that was an amazingly profound movie?

 

[BugLover]

Just like from the movie version of The Lorax. Anyone else think that was an amazingly profound movie?

Agreed.

 

[Domanating]

I think the same. Unless us humans continue on our path. If we do we will most likely eradicate all life in 100 years. There will be nothing left, and its all our fault. We try to stop, but its no use. If humans go extinct, however, life will flourish and be incredible and prosper fully again

We are the cause of our own demise. Nature has found a way to wipe us out, which is grow grow grow until resources are gone and civilization will colapse within itself back to a few hundred individuals or extinction.

No species is permanent