Or is it just leftist scientists going all crazy?
>>16817889No nothings wrong. Just keep consooming and don’t worry about where that rainforest went or those 10 billion barrels of oil we butterfingered into the Atlantic
>>16817955you can't name three species that have gone extinct in the past 50 years while in an extinction event you'd be losing that many species in a few months or faster.
>>16817889>Is the 'Anthropocene' and the 6th mass extintion a real thing?""""""*Yes"""""""""*Entire ecosystems and taxon aren't necessarily collapsing and being completely fucking obliterated: we are however killing off a lot of larger-to-medium-sized animals, we're decimating bird and fish populations, and I would consider most ecosystems and taxon to be at the very least 'compromised' by human activity. The fault in our stars concerning the "Anthropocentric 6th mass extinction" is that it's the "Aboriginal getting run over because he slept on the highway" equivalent of environmentalism. By that I mean this entire event could be avoided by being marginally more courteous to the environment: grow hedges to fence in crops, build natural bypasses over highways and connect conservation spaces to one another, get rid of lawns, get rid of dams not in use, replace concrete storm drains with naturalized canals, reintroduce animals (especially beavers), cheap boring shit like that. Pic semi-related. Whaling peeked in the 1970's and most whales were in very real danger of being driven to extinction, but we banned the practice and started using petroleum and vegetable oils for the products we used to make out of whales. All it took was to stop killing them on an industrial scale and they've rebounded fairly well all things considered.
>>16817961>you can't name three species that have gone extinct in the past 50 yearsYou are entitled to being confidently wrong
>>16817961>you can't name three species that have gone extinct in the past 50 yearsI’m a zoology major. I could name the bramble cay melomys, chinese paddlefish and christmas island shrew but you’d just say I looked it up>while in an extinction event you'd be losing that many species in a few months or fasterThis isn’t even close to true. Mathfags like you should stay out of life science discussions
>>16817961>everything I don't know never happened!based retard
>>16817994>Entire ecosystems and taxon aren't necessarily collapsing and being completely fucking obliteratedGive it time
>global warming is going to kill the planet by the year 2000 unless you give me all your money!!! t. 1988>global warming is going to kill the planet by the year 2012 unless you give me all your money!!! t. 2000>global warming is going to kill the planet by the year 2023 unless you give me all your money!!! t. 2018>oh shit everyone figured out global warming is fake!!! better think up a new scam quick!!! ummmm everyone in gaza is going to die by 2025 unless you give me all your money!!!
>>16817994Anthropocene doesn't just mean animals going extinct, the term literally means "human era", an era of the Earth where humans are so dominant that it leaves a lasting impact on the conditions of the Earth. Things like the change in climate, CO2 emissions, nuclear radiation, plastic rubble will have a noticeable presence in the Earth for thousands of years and life will have to evolve for these new conditions. And in fact life is already evolving in these new conditions.
>>16818986>source: some academic who has to choose between publicly admitting that his whole career was useless and predicated on falsehoods or shilling the global warming memeand of course being an atheist he chooses to lie for selfish reasons if global warming were real then the weather wouldn't be the same as it was 40 years ago, something would've noticeably changed, but it hasn't.
>>16818883>climate change isn’t real>ok it’s real but we aren’t causing it>ok we are causing it but it’s not an issue>oops
>>16818986>And in fact life is already evolving in these new conditionssource?
>>16818998>if global warming were real then the weather wouldn't be the same as it was 40 years ago, something would've noticeably changed, but it hasn'tWell you mustn’t be more than 30 then. It is different. We used to have fairly regular downpours that lasted several days every year or two here and they haven’t happened for at least 20 years. It’s gotten much windier and drier too
>>16818998the weather is not the climate
>>16819033>source?Not that Anon, but off the top of my head:Several species of fungi have evolved the ability to breakdown/consume plastics, a species of algae/pond scum has evolved specifically to remediate glyphosates, and about 14 species of bacteria/mold have colonized the *outside* of the ISS (they grow on the windows and solar panels) since maybe the 2012? I also remember hearing somewhere that a species of Mosquito, previously endemic to the UK, had speciated into a sub-species specifically adapted to living in sub-ways sometime after 1950, but I don't know how much of that is just pop-sci.
>>16819033Well urban wildlife is the obvious answer. You have pests like rats, mosquitos, cockroachs more widespread than ever as urban environments are basically paradises for them (and in case you are wondering the worldwide presence of them is a recent thing due to globalization). Nocturnal animals like certain species of moths are now being less attracted to light due to light pollution. You also have aquatic life like cods and salmons now having selections towards smaller sizes and earlier reproductive seasons due to overfishing. Basically anything's that is not dying due to human activity is now evolving for this new world. You can read Darwin Comes to Town if you wanna learn more on how human environments & activities is forcing evolutionary pressure on these animals>>16818998This is a science board yet you can't tell that weather and climate are two different things.
>call it the anthropocene>environmental changes are not caused by singular humans, but by escalating applications of barely understood technologiesis this human exceptionalism?
>>16819656apes together strong
>>16817961https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji
>>16818998My neighbor, it went up by a degree. Of course you're not going to notice that, but it still went up.
