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A professor famous for predicting the imminent demise of the human race at regular intervals since the 1970s has predicted the imminent demise of the human race.
Paul Ehrlich, who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, says it's definitely on this time. In a tinned statement issued on Friday, the arm-waving prof lays it on the line:
There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence ... the window of opportunity is rapidly closing ...
"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," Ehrlich said ...
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said lead author Gerardo Ceballos.
The original article can be found at The Register, with coverage of the cited study coming from ScienceMag.org
Original Submission
(Score: 1) by seeprime on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:59PM
He's wrong because he's eternally pessimistic. Changes are happening. Humans will adapt accordingly. The earth will survive with or without us. We are not causing a 6th extinction event because "experts" say we are, unless we enter a worldwide nuclear war. We are causing a lot of stress on our ecosystem that we need to, and will, come to grips with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @08:40PM
So, he missed the date by 20 years when he described a state of permanent war, constant surveillance by the gov't, a constant stream of propaganda spewing from an audio/video box, gov't operatives rewriting history, encouragement to scream at a ginned-up enemy...
Resource are not infinite. One of these first days, it will become clear that the party is over.
Your grandchildren will find your scribblings stating how everything is perfectly fine and nothing needs to be changed.
From that day, they will curse your name and desecrate your grave.
We who are going through a drought in California as well as the Pacific islanders who are seeing their homelands being lost to a rising ocean are the canaries in the coal mine.
Ignore our plight at your peril.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:21PM
You know that the sign of danger is that the canaries are dead? So obviously as long as people are living in California and on the Pacific islands, everything is OK. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.