Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes
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Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need “five more Earths” to maintain our current way of life.
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Certain civilizations never learned how to live in harmony with our planet. This is the result!
I'm choosing to be child-free in order to save the planet.
Look into permaculture if you want to be part of the solution. Visit a local permaculture garden or farm.
There are many amazing projects.
We need to develop new farming methods based on traditional practices that take care of the needs of the land, water, and people.
We are a force of nature for good or bad. We know the industrial extraction model for profits for a small group of people is the root cause. We can be the solution.
This is why covid 19 was released for population control.
wholly smokes a plan; less people= better living ,but since the government makes money of taxes that people pay, no wonder they want solar an electric cars. They make their money off taxes=people.
I live on the beach in Asia.
First job in the morning clear the beach of;
Plastic bottles
Old flip flops and plastic shoes.
Plastic of all shapes and sizes
Polystyrene Galore
Tooth brushes
Old lighters.
Etc etc
Cities expand..indigenous people's get moved off their lands to build dams which flood historic tribal lands and rivers act as a rubbish conduit straight into the sea.
To find fresh water streams almost.impossible as countless homeless people invade the forests to find cheap shelter and wash clothes and themselves in the once pristine river..!!
Carrying capacity 2 billion..
Hmmn..everyone rightly talks about genocide but hardly ever about ecocide!!
Supermarkets are filled with processed foods and tap water with chlorine
Ahhhh…the natural world..u can't beat it!!
How do we know this is all true? Oh its on tv so i guess it must be.
Humans are the most destructive force on the planet. I don't think we can do it.
BS
Strange how humans think that they are separate from Nature and the great extinction will not touch them ….. its like watching a car sliding on ice towards destruction
I would say it's primarily the destruction of wild habitats from construction, farming, roads, and pollution. So much land is being developed that wild animals have no place to live, so they're pushed out. And pollution, like companies dumping harmful chemicals into rivers, is also a major factor. Fishing and hunting also play a role as well obviously.
Corporate Greed: Money Matters!! Lives Do Not!!!
And people still are against abortion…
some truth mixed in with mostly propaganda,
Not true !
We need the Earth, it doesn't need us, and sadly, it would probably be better off without us.
This is a state of emergency 🚨 where are our governments action ?!?!
So glad I don't have kids …we have ruined our planet …
The comershel fishermen of Florida can relate to the salmon fishermen in danger of losing their livelihoods because of over fishing . We the comershel fishermen help feed the world , with no help from the government. Gill net fishing in Florida has been band for over 30 years, three along the Gulf of Mexico gill net fishing is legal the ban in Florida is great for them , fishing in my family goes to my great grandparents late 1700's .
I've said it before, we are now the new dinosaurs.
Unfortunately we have a huge evangelical population in the USA 🇺🇸 that believe in the end of times and that god will make the earth whole again or they will be in heaven and don’t have to worry about it 🤪👎
Did you hear trump’s speech on fresh water and why are we letting all of the fresh water flow to the ocean 🌊 he has no idea how the environment works 👎🤪
Can Trump join this extinction? Please?!!
Wow no more grisly bears 😢
Pollution. Human activity in the wild. Illegal dumping of human waste. It's over. Time for man to expire. They should have put a stop to over population knowing it would overcome this small world. If you don't learn from the past your condemned to repeat it😮
Man will hunt man cause there will be no more game. 😂
I’m afraid it is inevitable for a plot to eliminate 1/2 of the world’s population.😢😢😢
The Salmon are disappearing in Alaska right now. Yet nothing is being done about it. Fish and Game…not doing a damn thing. NOAA….nothing at all. They are all letting it happen.
Humanity trying to move to mars to destroy another planet.
After all now the natives are not looking so uneducated and savage after all.
Go watch the documentary Racing Extinction.
Consumania
Damn right we’re alarmed!
Witnessing a self mass extinction by our slow destruction, “ of our own making.”Powers in the hands of a few. Making the wrong choices, no checks allowed by the people, changing our humanity. For the better or worse?
You see the patterns?
The wwf that kicks indigenous out of their own forests in the name of conservation
Interesting …five more Earths or five dimensions… Sound familiar… The goal is to get to the 5th dimension… I believe that's where we all love instead of fighting. . A world where no STDs exist… That's where I want to be
Nothing our government does surprises me. They are the biggest threat of all!
stop with all the lies the world is bigger than people are told they all the laws and regulation to keep people huddled together so they can force there will upon people the Bible tells us that the just shall live by faith not fear not money not by all the lies beging told but by faith
dont watch mainstream media!!!!! its all fake
Yeah, not really news. We all know we're the danger.
“No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger”.
“A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!”.
Humanity is a cancer on the host, earth.
Always sad to watch these kind of shows
It's interesting that they're concerned about the water and the animals and the biodiversity. Assuming that humans will have to struggle with diminished resources, the point is the humans caused it. So when the humans are gone everything will rebound. Joe, the end game for this is humans need to be gone. But it's not a problem because we're very good at that and within a few decades we will be the ones experiencing mass extinction and the rest of the Earth can get on with its business
Caused by humans.
Sectoral conflicts is everywhere killing the livelihood in communities around the globe . Technological , commerce , and industrialization prefer for no rain policy that negate agricultural aim . Most of these activities have caused so much environmental harm on crisis that scorched down agricultural cultivations , while agricultural activities and industrial plants were discharging so much toxicities to soil , water and air for amounting environmental pollutions causing areas to become dead out of living organism . Deforestation that caused the ilimanation of the only natural greenery functiona to stabilize cosmic and man-made radiations but now is gone as well as wild life habitat where pathogens , viruses , genomes and chaos among wild life do occur , but , now everything were transfered to human conditions affecred highly on conflict , crisis , diseases and more aspects of regretful outcomes , and here we suffered most for the total outcome as fruits of our selfishness . We cant live alone as human , but by the function of our twins , the forest that give us life through water
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Is there enough farm land to feed 9bn people. We need 18bn acres for this.
The chart that was shown displaying prior extinction events indicated that every 100,000 years there is a mass extinction event. It showed that it has been 100,000 years since the last mass extinction event. So we are due for another one. What makes us think that there is anything within our power to stave off the coming event?
Why don't you tell the government to stop spraying aluminum, barium and strontium in the skies…
Might be a good start to conservation.
Stop dam fishing for money,,,you are the one destroying the planet..just dam fish to sustain your life