Is It Even Possible?

The environment is failing and about half of all today's species will be extinct by 2050 as said in Bill Nye and Ken ham debate at the creationist facility.

Thomas Malthus stated that the human population would eventually decrease significantly. His reasoning was that there would be a scarcity of food and other vital resources, leaving only the fittest of the species to survive. These “fittest” of the species would then pass on their traits to their offspring. Darwin used this is a firm foundation for his natural selection theory. Natural selection is the idea that the organisms that are the best suited for the environments they live in, are able to survive and pass on their genetic traits with huge success to the next generations of said organism.

The book was very in depth and she thoroughly explained her claims through facts and data. Her claims successfully explain the patterns of life on Earth through numerous studies and she explains the dangers of extinction. The author concludes her work with the fact that humans are dependent on Earth’s biological and geochemical systems. Her work will continue to teach future readers the danger of human lifestyles if necessary actions toward sustainability are not taken. If humans continue to live their harmful lifestyles, then they will continue to danger wildlife species, the environment, and their own

Why scientists are cautioning us that this could be a possible situation in our future.

There have been five comparable crises in the history of life on Earth. Kolbert came upon a scientific article arguing that the world was in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, which would be devastating for many other life forms. Accordingly, in Kolbert’s book, George Cuvier, the influential naturalist, was the first one to propose that some species that lived thousands of years ago are no longer alive. Even after Charles Darwin published his influential book, On the Origin of Species, scientists didn’t grasp that human beings are capable of influencing the environment to the point where certain species die out. With that, Walter Alvarez and Luis Alvarez in the 1980s, arguing that the dinosaurs went extinct because of a large asteroid that hit the Earth. While the Alvarez's’ theory was dismissed at first, it gradually became an accepted

Everything comes to an end, the human race will not be an exception to this. The only thing is, how the human race will become extinct and more importantly, when?. Robert explains, “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” (Robert 1-2). This specific question will forever echo in our minds. There are an infinite amount of variables and ways the world could come to an end so it is incredibly hard to predict if it will go out into a fiery inferno or in quick and painlessly.

Based loosely off the novel by P.D James comes a cautionary tale about humanity on the brink of extinction. The final adaptation of Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón, may best be summed up through the words of P.D James herself as she states, “of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct…Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt.” In the movie, the human race is in the midst of genetic erasure as widespread infertility has halted reproduction for the last eighteen years. Although the cause of the infertility is unknown, leaving the audience to determine the possible origin, history has shown us that the emergence of the human race has lead to the subsequent extinctions of other species. Moreover, humanity’s presence has permanently altered the biosphere, forever changing the relationship it has with the

If humanity were extinct, most animals will either be extinct or endangered. If humanity were to be extinct, not only we will die, approximately all the animals will die

In the article “Earth Without Humans,” Bob Holmes describes what negative impacts humans are having on our

There are so many ways to wipe mankind off the face of the universe. There is nothing they can do to prevent most of them. All humankind can do is increase their odds of survival by colonizing on multiple planets. The question is what planet? Mars is the clear choice to colonize on because it is habitable for humans and is close to Earth. Moreover, the breakthroughs from colonization on Mars will help advance life on Earth, examples of this include Light-Emitting Diodes, and Anti-icing systems which help pilots fly through icy conditions safely. . The World Wildlife Fund, warns that by the year 2050, Earth will be unable to support life. The human race is urbanizing the planet at a pace that in 34 years or so, the planet will be exploited of all natural resources and space. Imagine a world where even the tip of Antarctica will look like downtown Hong Kong in China. A population like that can not be supported by Earth and long before that happens, Earth will reach its expiry date. It’s too late to stop Earth’s destruction with the rising population. All they can do is lighten the burden of Mankind on Earth, and start colonizing on other planets, and especially on Mars. The survival of the Human race depends on whether Mankind chooses to colonize on Mars or not. “Mars is there waiting to be reached”-Buzz Aldrin. Mars will be colonized, it’s just a matter of

Contrasting the mass extinction and the current extinction. The first big thing is that we are causing the 6th one because all the other ones before it was caused by natural causes and this one is manmade like on the website InTegrate “The Biodiversity Crisis – Are Humans Causing a Sixth Mass Extinction?”. Also this one is happening faster than the ones before it the older one took millions of years this one is happening in less than a decade.

According to W. John Kress, planet Earth has never seen a larger change than it has since humans came along (Borenstein). Many

After many scientific studies about a sixth mass extinction on Earth, people have begun to doubt about our existence on Earth after this immeasurable extinction. Things like the possible beginning of a new epoch called Anthropocene, the high amount of lost species due to extinctions, climate change, deforestation and contamination could be the main reasons of this gigantic event which could lead to our disappearance on Earth.

In the end we are going to go extinct, the cancer rates will be through the roof. Instead of one in every in every three, every person living will have some type of cancer. Our dying beautiful world is falling faster than ever, we have not tried hard enough to try to catch it. Would you want to have your kids grow up in a world where cancer is practically a promise? Where the skies are dark from pollution, and the streets filled with trash. This might soon be our outlook on the future, and all of this puts you at risk for

However, recent speculation has lead many scientists to believe that we are currently in a mass extinction period, one that could not only be bigger than any previous extinction event, but that actually points a finger towards humans as being the main cause. This extinction event is known as The Holocene Extinction, the Sixth Extinction or the Anthropocene Extinction, and whether we like it or not, there is definitely a considerable amount of evidence to prove that this mass extinction is happening, and that the cause is largely due to human activity. Specific research indicates that deforestation, hunting, pollution, the introduction of non-native species into various regions, destruction of vast tracts of land, river systems, and habitats, and the widespread transmission of infectious diseases spread through livestock and crops are having the most drastic effects on most species. Current studies even show that the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year, making it the greatest loss of biodiversity since the Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction. Edward Osborne Wilson, an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author, calculated that if the current rate of human disruption of the biosphere continues, one-half of