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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:53PM
Better think about all the destructive things they could have done with that time, but didn't since they were busy thinking about metaphysics. It's better for your mood.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @10:11PM
Westboro Baptist Church; all the hate spewed by Pat Robertson, et al; abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph; the nitwit(s) who killed the 4 little girls in Birmingham with a bomb...
There are plenty of losers who manage to be both superstitions and evil.
...then there is Sister Bertha Better-Than-You who is just annoying.
-- gewg_