"The prognosis for the survival of a large proportion of extant species is not good. Our review lays out arguments clearly demonstrating that there is a biodiversity crisis, quite probably the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Dedicated conservation biologists and conservation agencies are doing what they can, focused mainly on threatened birds and mammals, among which some species may be saved from the extinction that would otherwise ensue. But we are pessimistic about the fate of most of the Earth's biodiversity, much of which is going to vanish without us ever knowing of its existence."

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12816

A study about the Sixth Mass Extinction from 2022 but still as accurate, alerting and pressing as ever. Which is why I wanted to boost it here.

I feel like it's one of the parts about climate change and human folly that is often disregarded for no apparent reason.

#ClimateCrisis will lead to many deaths and conflicts, especially (and mostly unjustified) in the global south, the ones suffering from the global north's colonialist bullshittery.

But, many don't seem to have in mind that if, for example, bees are gone, flowers won't get pollinated. Ask the Chinese people about it.

Earth's biosphere is intertwined in a very complex manner and us humans are just a small part of it, even if we may believe otherwise.

At the rate, species are currently vanishing, I find it highly alerting that it's being ignored by most media, except for those deeply involved with #climatechange and #nature

#climate #UprootTheSystem #degrowth #globalwarming #globalheating #heatwaves #floods #ClimateMigration #ClimateStrike #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #ClimateJusticeNow #Earth #environment #savetheplanet #savetheearth #savetheocean #savethebees #savethetrees #science #insects #animals #biosphere