BCM Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 nice knowing you Earth 'entering new extinction phase' - US study - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33209548 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audioblysk Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Man, I guess it really doesn't take long for humans to fuck up an entire planet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 But on the bright side...uhh...umm...hey look what's that over there!?!? *runs away delet-style* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 i dont buy into it and imo those kinds of headlines are sensationalism i'm sure what i just said will be disagreed with by probably over 90% of watmmrs however, but watever, i said it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Seriously though... God won't let his children go extinct He designed this entire universe just for us humans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 heh, are you trying to express some notion that my feelings on this has anything at all to do with god? havent i told you before that im pretty much atheist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 i dont buy into it and imo those kinds of headlines are sensationalism i'm sure what i just said will be disagreed with by probably over 90% of watmmrs however, but watever, i said it No I'm with ya (a bit) Studies shouldn't be taken as gospel At least not before the scientific community has had its chance to mull over the findings Over-confidence in less-than-robust findings lead to Gladwellian pseudo-scientific grandiosity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 BoC predicted it omg the brothers are prophets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 heh, are you trying to express some notion that my feelings on this has anything at all to do with god? havent i told you before that im pretty much atheist? No, that wasn't directed at you I wrote that before I read yr post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 seriously though...did the BBC just officially announce The End of The World? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I just turned 28 and have nowhere near the emotional maturity it would take to be a father. I see it as a blessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterE Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 i just find it absolutely, i mean seriously mind blowingly amusing and also kind of crazy, that probably close to if not a majority of people who come to this place have ideas and entertain notions such as there being some kind of shadowy NWO or illuminati group, trying to control/change the world, but apparently none of these people consider that all these articles talking about how we are killing the planet and now the world govs are going to have to take drastic measures, that that might have anything at all to do with your fabled NWO. like the mere idea that a big movement which has clear intentions of literally changing world economies, changing everyones way of life, no. no way that could have any at all connection to a shady group who wants to... change... the world. maybe lets get a little bit more creative with our bullshit conspiracy theories guys, and maybe start connecting some dots that are right in front of our faces? heh, are you trying to express some notion that my feelings on this has anything at all to do with god?havent i told you before that im pretty much atheist? No, that wasn't directed at youI wrote that before I read yr post ah, k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 So Mister E, are you suggesting that a shadowy NWO is creating the illusion of climate change to introduce artificial scarcity to rip us all off even more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 fuck it...was a laugh while it lasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schafseckel Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 quantum immortality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 i just find it absolutely, i mean seriously mind blowingly amusing and also kind of crazy, that probably close to if not a majority of people who come to this place have ideas and entertain notions such as there being some kind of shadowy NWO or illuminati group, trying to control/change the world, but apparently none of these people consider that all these articles talking about how we are killing the planet and now the world govs are going to have to take drastic measures, that that might have anything at all to do with your fabled NWO. like the mere idea that a big movement which has clear intentions of literally changing world economies, changing everyones way of life, no. no way that could have any at all connection to a shady group who wants to... change... the world. maybe lets get a little bit more creative with our bullshit conspiracy theories guys, and maybe start connecting some dots that are right in front of our faces? Conspiratorial social critiques aside, humanity *is* responsible for demolishing biodiversity by re-purposing massive swathes of land and hunting oceanic life in an entirely uncontrolled sense. When keystone species are lost or pervading features of an environment are tampered with even a small amount, complex systems integral to life begin to collapse in a manner that we are only beginning to fathom: anthropogenic ocean acidification eliminating the ability of shellfish to produce their shells being one of the more dire examples. Think of how many animals depend on swarms of krill and just keep working your way down the chain... It's much more difficult to discount headlines like this as pure social manipulation when you are acutely aware of how the natural environment around you has changed since you were a child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 honeslty dont care. humans as an entire species have proven themselves mostly incapable of fitting into the food chain on a polite, sustainable level like every other animal does, and therefore if we wipe ourselves out it will be entirely justified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 im still reeling from the fact that a quarter of the people that live in my country actually woke up on the 14th of may 2015, walked out their house, and voted for the utterly amorale fucking scum that is the conservative party. my lifelong belief that people are by and large well meaning, decent people was shattered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 This is not even a modern or Western thing. It's been going on since the last ice age. Where ever humans go they tend to wipe out bunch species. The Holocene extinction, sometimes called the Sixth Extinction, is a name proposed to describe the currently ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (since around 10,000 BCE) mainly due to human activity. The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large mammals known as megafauna, starting between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I just spent about ten minutes writing a post and then abruptly erased it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adieu Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I don't see it as a huge concern as long as the planet stays habitable for us and those species that work synergistically with humans. This type of science and scaremongering headlines happens all the time, because their paychecks depend on it. Barring a catastrophe we will be multi-planetary in a big way in less than a century. Are we going to take every species with us even if we terraform? Fuck no. As long as earth stays habitable and we start drawing back on pollution and non-renewables we will be ok. (barring a catastrophe) even then though we'd probably make it through most cataclysmic events as a species, but our numbers and current state of technology would be greatly diminished for quite some time. But really now, if we don't have a measure in place to account for super volcanoes, asteroids, and nuclear rector meltdowns should we be getting our panties all wadded up about the possible impacts of extinctions? My opinion is not really. We are already working on more renewables, less pollution, etc. etc. We just need to keep the pressure on, and move forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I just spent about ten minutes writing a post and then abruptly erased it. i wish more followed in those footsteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audioblysk Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I'm pessimistic about a great deal of things. But, one thing I remain optimistic about is that long after humans have wiped themselves off the planet, it'll keep on truckin' and flourish anew. Bring it on Earth, you son of a bitch. If we're going down, you're gonna need tens of millions of years to recover - that'll show you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 300 million years, the earth will be populated by scaly mammalian marsupials with huge dicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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