Sunday, November 26, 2017

How Concerned Should You Be About Species Extinction? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

How Concerned Should You Be About Species Extinction? - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Image result for dinasaurs"A group of more than 15,000 scientists published "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," in the journal Bioscience earlier this month.
...The alarmed scientists are worried about the deleterious effects of man-made global warming and human population growth, but also urgently warned that humanity has "unleashed a mass extinction event, the sixth in roughly 540 million years, wherein many current life forms could be annihilated or at least committed to extinction by the end of this century."
...In a fascinating op-ed,
"We don't need to save endangered species.
Extinction is part of evolution," over at the Washington Post, George Washington University biologist R. Alexander Pyron calls out "extinction fearmongers"..."
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