“The Great Dying: Earth's largest-ever mass extinction is a warning for humanity”
“Recently, two groundbreaking studies on the #GreatDying reveal that the causes of that mass #extinction bear some striking similarities to what's happening today. In fact, in some ways the pace of change, such as the rate of release of greenhouse gases, is much faster today than it was 250 million years ago.”
“…a little over 250 million years ago — before dinosaurs walked the earth — in an episode called the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction, or the Great Dying, when 90% of life in the oceans and 70% of life on land vanished.”
“To save ourselves, he says we must learn from events like the Great Dying. "You know what they say, learn from history, because if you don't you will repeat it."
"The way I see it is, it is going to happen if we don't stop it or don't mitigate what we are doing," he said. But Brand stressed that we still have time to turn it around by moving away from the burning of fossil fuels.”
Eastern Tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
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“SCIENTISTS WARN THAT THE EARTH IS LITERALLY DYING”
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Democrats and Republicans dream come true
“Humans are responsible for so many species dying out that we are now in a sixth mass extinction.
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“Earth has entered the sixth mass extinction, warn scientists”
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