The Return of the Dead: Countering Extinction
By Joakim Book | @JoakimBook
July 22, 2020
Slowly, humans are making amends for our past excesses. What’s clear is that nature’s resilience is stronger than we thought.
The Return of the Dead: Countering Extinction
By Joakim Book | @JoakimBook
Animals die all the time. Sometimes so much so that entire species go extinct – a terrible loss for biodiversity and our world’s ecologic systems. A National Geographic article last year prefaced a discussion about species going extinct by pointing out that “more than 99 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct.â€
Over the millennia that humans have roamed the Earth and impacted our planet, our species has greatly contributed to the process of extinction. In recent years, fears have emerged that industrialization is relegating unique lifeforms to the dustbins of evolutionary history faster than at any time in the past – something like 100 to 1,000 times the so-called “background rates†of natural extinction.
https://www.humanprogress.org/the-return-of-the-dead-countering-extinction/
