Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Is Ending

Metadata

• Author: Maggie Harrison
• Full Title: Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Is Ending
• Category: articles
• Document Tags: #planet
• URL: https://futurism.com/stanford-scientists-civilization-crumble

Highlights

• Tony Barnosky, a Stanford biologist whose work involves using fossil records to map changes in ecosystems over time, told CBS that his work suggests that extinction rates today are moving at roughly 100 times the rate typically seen in Earth's four-billion-year known history of supporting life. According to Barnosky, such rapid population loss means that Earth is currently experiencing the worst mass extinction episode since the dinosaurs. And while Earth itself has repeatedly recovered from mass extinction events, the vast majority of the life existing on our planet at the time has not.