I find this one of the most depressing articles I've read for a long time.
If the upper rate values are true, we're headed for an extinction event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event on the level of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in within centuries (75% species loss)
The depressing part is how "invisible" this extinction rate is to most people. It's happening just slowly enough to barely register in people's memories.
Imagine never hearing any birds chirping outside, something we had been witnessing here in Vienna - a silent but profound feeling of horror when I first realized it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usutu_virus
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I find this one of the most depressing articles I've read for a long time.
If the upper rate values are true, we're headed for an extinction event http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event on the level of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in within centuries (75% species loss)
Already 41% of amphibians face extinction.
The depressing part is how "invisible" this extinction rate is to most people. It's happening just slowly enough to barely register in people's memories.
Imagine never hearing any birds chirping outside, something we had been witnessing here in Vienna - a silent but profound feeling of horror when I first realized it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usutu_virus