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The sixth mass extinction on Earth has officially begun and could threaten humanity's existence
The Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2015 | Mark Prigg

Posted on 06/20/2015 12:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, researchers have declared.

Researchers say a new study shows 'without any significant doubt' that we are entering the sixth great mass extinction on earth.

The study says that the window for conserving threatened species is rapidly closing.

The study shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,' said Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment who led the research.

The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate....

Despite the gloomy outlook, there is a meaningful way forward, according to Ehrlich and his colleagues.

'Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations – notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change,' the study's authors write.

In the meantime, the researchers hope their work will inform conservation efforts, the maintenance of ecosystem services and public policy....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 6thextinction; carryingcapacity; demagogicparty; ehrlich; environment; epa; genocide; green; overpopulation; paulehrlich; populationbomb; sixthextinction
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

hopefully it take the Liberal progressives ,communists , muslims and the ‘diversity bunch’ first .... that would thin things out by a couple of billion nicely


41 posted on 06/20/2015 2:32:56 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Norm Lenhart
Why you "bad boy" you.

: )

I see you're a conservationist (as it is meant to be defined) fighting the eco-Nazis - the massive network that's all those interconnected liberal groups that J.R. Dunn calls the "liberal superstructure" - Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future

42 posted on 06/20/2015 2:38:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Back then and before I ever got in the game, guys like Rick Sieman had been active for yeaars trying to get people to even accept these groups existed. And most people refused to believe it. They were determined to believe that the Greenies were just misguided bunny huggers and college kids looking to have a cause.

Very few saw them for what they were. The Dave Foremans, the Dave Wheelers, the Rod Coronados were all just thought od as no big deal.

I would highly people bone up on Agenda 21 and the subsection known as “The Wildlands Project. This official part of the Official UN agenda calls for a total population of the US of under 500,000 people. It is not a joke. It is Policy.

For people that think it’s a joke, read the WP , look at their maps and then overlay them with current land use closures. They are implementing it. Fully. And the timetable in now under 60 years IIRC.

Now ask yourself how exactly you reduce the American population to under 500K without disease, starvation or global war.


43 posted on 06/20/2015 2:59:05 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Enterprise
The NWO. We need to kill billions of people to save the planet

The article seems to be advocating total control by a global government, with an end to national borders. Reduce everyone (except the elite, of course) to a lower standard of living "to save the planet".

Kill us to save us. What a plan.

44 posted on 06/20/2015 3:06:35 AM PDT by grania
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To: Norm Lenhart
Post #6

"A common enemy to unite us"

....Around the same time, influential anthropologist and president of the American Medical Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Margaret Mead, gathered together like-minded anti-population hoaxsters at her 1975, North Carolina conference, “The Atmosphere: Endangered and Endangering”. Mead’s star recruits were climate scare artist Stephen Schneider, population-freak George Woodwell and former AAAS head, John Holdren (currently President Barack Obama’s Science and Technology Czar). All three of them disciples of Malthusian catastrophist Paul Ehrlich, author of the “The Population Bomb”.

45 posted on 06/20/2015 3:08:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dp0622
It is bad. It is wrong. It is wholly false. It is not ridiculous.This is where our whole system is going. If/when this country becomes that bureaucratic totalitarian State that AGW and related insanities are being used to build, a mass extinction, or at least a mass diminution of human life on earth will be under weigh in the world because the engine that feeds much of the world and provides the innovations that allow sufficient food to be produced elsewhere will be out of the loop and the famines of yore will become once again a feature of human life.
New antibiotics will cease to be produced, perhaps, with obamacare have already ceased to be researched and the levelling quality of disease will return. The level of violence in the world will rise sharply as the main keeper of the Peace will no longer be able to police the sealanes because the society nno longer produces enough surplus to finance its military and the budding empires will explode into bloom and lay great destruction on each other while they try to divide up what America can no longer protect or command, including America itself.
46 posted on 06/20/2015 3:08:59 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If these animals were not already under pressure naturally there is nothing on earth we could do to get rid of them (think cockroaches)

Man can speed up the process of extinction but can not and does not cause the factors which threatened them to begin with.


47 posted on 06/20/2015 3:09:10 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I wouldn’t worry about it.... a comet or asteroid is going to hit us and destroy life on the planet before the temperature changes that much... or the ragheads are going to nuke everyone.... or aliens are going to invade and kill everyone..... or the sun is going to blow up and destroy earth..... or our universe is going to be absorbed by a parallel universe and destroy us.... or....


48 posted on 06/20/2015 3:10:56 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Human cities have never been cleaner than they are at this time.


49 posted on 06/20/2015 3:11:18 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: grania

With ACA and the IRS controlling our health and our money, with the EPA and Global UN Climate Governance and it’s Social Justice message controlling how the planet’s resources are used, there will be no freedom. They are all seen by these “more equal pigs” as interdependent and thus each effects the other.


50 posted on 06/20/2015 3:13:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: arthurus

wow. Very well stated.
Once Again, another FReeper puts into words what I cant articulate.
That is the goal. The Germans used the Jews as an excuse.

America is going to use global warming, extinction, and if they have their way, Christianity.

I wish I was 27 instead of 47. I had a lot more fight in me.

And there is a battle brewing.

Even my own Pope stabbed me in the back.


51 posted on 06/20/2015 3:13:17 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: vette6387
You have correctly identified the REAL threat of our time.

3rd world populations flooding into 1st world nations and collapsing their welfare systems.

52 posted on 06/20/2015 3:13:28 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Gaffer

Cartman is awesome.


53 posted on 06/20/2015 3:18:01 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: dp0622

Don’t worry about the Pope. He is not the first political pope. The Medicis produced some humdingers back in the day. Ultimately they do not affect the Magisterium. You know, ir you reflect, there is a reason for such as Francis. We may not understand it now but later we will, or our children or grandchildren will. There is a Godly pope still alive and this pope is finally the pope that the Left has dreamed of, For once the pope turns out not to be Catholic. Somehow that will bite them. Already their great hopes and expectations about queer Coupling have evanesced.


54 posted on 06/20/2015 3:20:58 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Sure, but here’s the thing. Paulie and co. can program the minds emptied by the American Education system to believe about anything and set them to work offing people. But there are far more than 500,000 of the useful idiots and you can bet that they aren’t suicidal. They all intend to be one of the 500K.

However, once their cunning purge of deniers begins, they become targets themselves and exterminated as the enemy they are. And as stupid as most are, I think a significant number of the troops will see this early.

You also have to figure that most of said troops are anti gun, anti violence and basement dwellers that can’t make Ramen without reading the instructions. So when the slaughter starts, they are out at the first whiff. The classic ‘useful idiot’ thing.

Now you have one group with all the power and force of the US Govt with a bipartisan excuse to come down hard. And anyone that says no way really needs to bone up on the history of Nazi Germany, China, and the Soviet union. It CAN happen here because the people now occupying DC in both parties are largely communist themselves.


55 posted on 06/20/2015 3:22:20 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: arthurus

Good Lord. You’re right.

The Catholic church is now aligned with obummer on climate change and distribution of wealth.

How’d that work out in Africa after apartheid.


56 posted on 06/20/2015 3:26:29 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Norm Lenhart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_for_the_Defense_of_the_Revolution

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3302194/posts#31

“.... Given problems such as global warming, unending road building that causes urban sprawl, and overpopulation related to over-dependence on petroleum for agriculture, would you advocate the formation of citizen petroleum councils? These would utilize industry expertise to identify threats to sustainability, and be created on local to international levels to arrive at solutions.

Teresa Heinz Kerry’s] response was that such an idea was along the lines of what should be mandatory education. She felt that schools, PTAs and churches should be utilized for such initiatives as citizen petroleum councils, although she warned, Americans are busy. They also like to take care of matters when they feel like it, although they do deal with a crisis once they get going.


57 posted on 06/20/2015 3:34:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Norm Lenhart

Well, the point of the Fallout video games was that the world’s countries both getting bankrupted and running out of oil resulted in the nuclear war in the first place. If anything, sufficient collapse in nations that possess nuclear weapons means a loss of reason against their use. Plus, Fallout is pretty heavily based on the Mad Max trilogy, where nuclear war occurred and the world was left in the Stone Age.


58 posted on 06/20/2015 3:35:16 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009

Right. But the end result is an almost feral people in a preindustrial world scavenging to survive and trying to rebuild while roving gangs of liberals try enslaving, robbing and killing them. How the fallout world got to it’s state isn’t my point so much as what happened after the war.


59 posted on 06/20/2015 3:42:46 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Man still thinks he has and can control


60 posted on 06/20/2015 3:44:17 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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