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Earth's sixth mass extinction is underway and "rapidly accelerating," study warns (www.axios.com)

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Earth's sixth mass extinction is already happening — and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

highly successful species

Well let's not get ahead of ourselves. Judging from the current state, the opposable thumb was wasted on us. Should've given it to the Capybaras.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You have to have some very particular and eccentric standards to judge humans as not being a successful species.