Some science behind the scenes
Mass Extinction
In both biology and ecology, extinction is defined as the cessation on earth of a species or group of taxa. Thus the disappearance of the form on earth. As most biologists and ecologists have no knowledge of the survival of function, the definition only applies to the decommissioning of form. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species (although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point).
There have been at least five mass extinctions in the history of life, and four in the last 3.5 billion years in which many species have disappeared in a relatively short period of geological time. The most recent of these, the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, is best known for having wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, among many other species.
The classical "Big Five" mass extinctions identified by Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup in their 1982 paper are widely agreed upon as some of the most significant: End Ordovician, Late Devonian, End Permian, End Triassic, and End Cretaceous.
According to Wikipedia “ A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance, although some species, called living fossils, survive virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Extinction, though, is usually a natural phenomenon; it is estimated that 99.9% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.”
But things have changed…..
Wikipedia
Prior to the dispersion of humans across the earth, extinction generally occurred at a continuous low rate, mass extinctions being relatively rare events. Starting approximately 100,000 years ago, and coinciding with an increase in the numbers and range of humans, species extinctions have increased to a rate unprecedented since the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event. This is known as the Holocene extinction event and is at least the sixth such extinction event.
According to a 1998 survey of 400 biologists conducted by New York's American Museum of Natural History, “nearly 70 percent believed the prediction that up to 20 percent of all living populations could become extinct within 30 years (by 2028)”. Biologist E. O. Wilson estimated in 2002 that if current rates of human destruction of the biosphere continue, one-half of all species of life on earth will be extinct in 100 years. More significantly the rate of species extinctions at present is estimated at 100 to 1000 times "background" or average extinction rates in the evolutionary time scale of planet Earth.
Observations
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- Science News from research organizations Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis Date October 15, 2018
- Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
- Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians
- Asclepius - The End of this Era
- Bruce Chatwin - Climate as the motor of evolutionary change
- Bryson, Bill - Earth events as agents of change
- Bryson, Bill - Extraterrestrial events as agents of change
- Bryson, Bill - On climate as an agent of change
- Bryson, Bill - On Extinction
- Bryson, Bill - On pathogens as agents of change
- Bryson, Bill - On targeted extinction
- Bryson, Bill - On the Reasons for the Extinctions
- Bryson, Bill - On the sequencing of increments and configurations
- Crowley - 20 The Aeon
- Dr Seuss - Horton Hears a Who 02
- Dr Seuss - The Lorax 01
- Dr Seuss - The Lorax 02
- Dr Seuss - The Lorax 03
- Dresden Pythia – Prophecies from August 1919 of catastrophic floods
- Dryden, John - From Harmony
- Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
- Flammarion, Camille - La Fin du Monde (The End of the World)
- Freddie Mercury and Queen - The Prophet’s Song
- Gardner, Ingrid - Up through the planets
- Gibier, Dr Paul - Psychism Analysis of Things Existing - Apocalypse
- Haught, John F - The next step - deeper consciousness and deeper freedom, deeper capacity to love and feel
- Hodgson, Roger – Crime of the Century - If everyone was listening
- Hodgson, Roger – In the Eye of the Storm - Give Me Life
- Hodgson, Roger – In the Eye of the Storm - I'm Not Afraid
- Hodgson, Roger – In the Eye of the Storm - In Jeopardy
- Hodgson, Roger – In the Eye of the Storm - Lovers in the Wind
- Jesus - Matthew 24 - The End of the World and Judgement day
- Joel 2
- John Pendragon - The cities of the Atlantic coast from Boston to Baltimore will be wiped out, the nexus of this annihilation being New York, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia
- Judee Sill - The Phoenix
- Moitessier, Bernard - Tamata and the Alliance - The truck and the abyss
- Nonnus, Dionysiaca 6. 155 ff
- Pendragon foretold great devastation in the United States, with many eastern cities wiped out
- Pitahauerat Pawnee - Native American Indians - The End of the World
- Plato - Statesman - A Theory of Evolution
- Plumptre, Reverend Edward - The Spirits In Prison – Good, evil and the end of the world
- Poetic Edda - Vafthrudnir's sayings [extract]
- Qu'ran - The End of the World - Surah 101 & 102
- Revelation - The End of the Aeon
- Revelations 06 : 12
- Revelations 08
- Revelations 10
- Revelations 11
- Roger Coghill – Extinction and the Ages of Man
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 11, Chapter 03 – End of the world
- Schrodinger, Erwin - What is Life - Mutation rate and temperature
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A letter, published in the London Sunday Express (1930) – A summary of the imminent apocalypse
- Soddy, Frederick – Soddy's role as prophet - 04 Surely ... the world is doomed, if it fools with the achievements of science as it has fooled too long in the past
- Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Extinction and destruction
- The Architect – The Matrix – The Ages of Man, Increments, configurations and The Great Work
- The Lotus Sutra - 03 Simile and Parable - 3 The Parable of the Burning House
- The Lotus Sutra - 15 Life span - 2 The Pure Land
- Urantia Book - Paper 132 - The Sojourn at Rome - Scientism
- Vishnu and Shiva Puranas - The End of the world [continued]
- Vishnu Purana 1.3. 1-3 - The End of the World
- Vrba, Dr Elisabeth - The Pulse That Produced Us
- Wonder, Stevie - Saturn
- Yassawi - 12 HIKMET 35