Mass Extinction

[HitchSlap]

Are we headed for the sixth mass extinction event?

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I'm currently reading "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, and I gotta say, things aren't looking so good for future generations.

Amazon.com: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition (9780143117001): Jared Diamond: Books

 

[Lost Angel]

I am not convinced that we humans can stop the course of climate change, but it seems to be certain that our wildlife balance is going to be greatly thrown off balance by it.

Greater attention should be spent on the things that we can definitely impact. We have a huge impact on the food cycle of life, as well as the plant and environment that impact the entire chain of life.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[juvenissun]

I am not convinced that we humans can stop the course of climate change, but it seems to be certain that our wildlife balance is going to be greatly thrown off balance by it.

Greater attention should be spent on the things that we can definitely impact. We have a huge impact on the food cycle of life, as well as the plant and environment that impact the entire chain of life.

Thanks for sharing.

How could this ability be evolved from monkey?

 

[HitchSlap]

How could this ability be evolved from monkey?

Stay on OT, please.

 

[juvenissun]

Stay on OT, please.

I am.
He suggested that we are the cause of the coming mass extinction.

 

[Heissonear]

So many with zero comprehension that the Kingdom of God is in our midst and the Heavens Rule.

The first Flood was an extinction caused by Sin. The first was a Physical Shadow!

 

[Mainframes]

How could this ability be evolved from monkey?

Its not an ability. It is simply the fact that humanity is so 'successful' that we now number in the billions and growing and this is putting enormous strain on existing and finite resources that the planet can provide.

I put successful in inverted commas because it is this success that may well bring about our own downfall if something doesnt change fairly soon.....

 

[Heissonear]

Its not an ability. It is simply the fact that humanity is so 'successful' that we now number in the billions and growing and this is putting enormous strain on existing and finite resources that the planet can provide.

I put successful in inverted commas because it is this success that may well bring about our own downfall if something doesnt change fairly soon.....

Why do you error on what is concluded from man's present circumstances? What comes from a foundation of Naturalism is error. The growth in population and time of finite resources were known from the Beginning.

 

[juvenissun]

Why do you error on what is concluded from man's present circumstances? What comes from a foundation of Naturalism is error. The growth in population and time of finite resources were known from the Beginning.

True. I don't think human can be the cause of an mass extinction no matter what we do.

 

[Strathos]

True. I don't think human can be the cause of an mass extinction no matter what we do.

So I guess we can just go set off a few thousand nuclear bombs for fun then, right? No harm done.

 

[food4thought]

Between the chemicals we use as part of our agriculture potentially having terrible consequences on insect populations, global travel and pet marketing contributing to the spread of invasive species, our overfishing of some areas of the oceans, and our massive reorganization of land habitats, I am surprised we haven't seen more species go extinct.

As Christians, we definitely need to acknowledge that mankind is currently having a negative affect on biodiversity. We need to do more to balance current human needs/wants with the fate of future generations. Short term thinking is the bane of democratic societies.

 

[Paulos23]

True. I don't think human can be the cause of an mass extinction no matter what we do.

What planet do you live on? Have you not seen the effect of our polution? Of our use of the land?

 

[Paul of Eugene OR]

True. I don't think human can be the cause of an mass extinction no matter what we do.

Tell that to the passenger pigeons.

 

[juvenissun]

Tell that to the passenger pigeons.

Definitely we have terminated a few species of life. But it is far far away from something called mass extinction.

 

[juvenissun]

What planet do you live on? Have you not seen the effect of our polution? Of our use of the land?

It won't last long.
Many humans will be killed by it. Then the pollution stops.

 

[juvenissun]

So I guess we can just go set off a few thousand nuclear bombs for fun then, right? No harm done.

I am not sure it will cause a mass extinction.

 

[Doveaman]

Are we headed for the sixth mass extinction event?

Yes, it's called The Great Tribulation.

I'm currently reading "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, and I gotta say, things aren't looking so good for future generations.

That's old news. The Bible already predicted that a long time ago:

"For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved" - (Matt 24:21-22).

 

[Paulos23]

True. I don't think human can be the cause of an mass extinction no matter what we do.

What planet do you live on? Have you not seen the effect of our polution? Of our use of the land?

It won't last long.
Many humans will be killed by it. Then the pollution stops.

I think you just disproved your point.

Also, pollution stays around for a long time and has long lasting effects. Just because humans go away doens't mean it stops. I sticks around and causes problems, in some cases for a long period of time.

 

[Lost Angel]

I am.
He suggested that we are the cause of the coming mass extinction.

Please carefully read what I wrote. We have some impact on our environment. All life does. Over population, destruction of land and water, and killing of species involve all life, not just humans.

Humans just have the intellect and physical ability to preserve or lessen the disturbance of a functioning and balanced ecosystem.

It is not directly associate with evolution. We just are the only ones with the necessary traits.

 

[Lost Angel]

I am not sure it will cause a mass extinction.

Yeah, what life survives will lead to future generations with resistance to all the radiation, toxic land and sea, and all the other nasty byproducts of massive nuclear detonations around the world.

Go evolution. Go roaches.