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How Many of You Actually Know We Are In the Middle of a Mass Extinction?

I know we are in the middle of the earths sixth mass extinction

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Thalassa

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I'm curious, in a forum that at least claims to be N heavy and a generation that claims to be informed, how many members of this forum actually know we are in the beginning of the earths sixth mass extinction? Because as far as I can tell, humanity N or S, seems to be DISTRACTED rather than actually informed. Maybe I'm wrong and typology central will restore my faith in Americans (for some reason I expect foreigners to reign here).
 

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Yes, I'm aware. I have an interested in the growth of civilization and the impact we've had on our surroundings. But that shouldn't make you feel better, I have taken no action, and I have no solution.
 

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Yes, I'm aware. I have an interested in the growth of civilization and the impact we've had on our surroundings. But that shouldn't make you feel better, I have taken no action, and I have no solution.

At least you know. It's called the Holocene extinction. It fascinates me because as much as two years ago I was alarmed at how the human population has seemingly DOUBLED in my relatively short lifetime (I'm in my 30s not my 80s), and the wide range effects this has on the ecosystem, because we need invertibrates to sustain vertibrates, and plant diversity is also dwindling.

On a personal level, I don't know if your answer is passive aggressive bullshit or just honesty or guilty self hatred, but honestly I don't think we are too far from a genocide of the unaware. I think the next Hitler won't kill Jews, but people unaware of the consequences of their actions on humanity, because in a collective sense, it seems every bit as moral as murdering invading Jews in nationalist Germany.
 

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I have heard of the Holocene extinction, and I am aware of the role humans have played in the extinction of an enormous number of the planet's species. I also know that the majority of humans don't care at all. People in general have an almost complete lack of accountability when it comes to the environment.
 

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Idk, does it even matter to me, right now?

 

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Your tone for this thread comes across as really belittling and snooty, and is really off putting. Yes I am aware. Most people aren't aware because the process is rather slow and rolling. It's not like a natural disaster such as a hurricane where the effects are easy to see and present. Sadly, there isn't a darn thing we can do to stop this. The world is much too entrenched with how it currently works and there is not a single chance society is going to begin to organize and uproot for it. Things will have to get unfathomably bad before it does. Luckily for us, I don't think the most serious of effects will hit us in our lifetime.
 

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On a personal level, I don't know if your answer is passive aggressive bullshit or just honesty or guilty self hatred, but honestly I don't think we are too far from a genocide of the unaware. I think the next Hitler won't kill Jews, but people unaware of the consequences of their actions on humanity, because in a collective sense, it seems every bit as moral as murdering invading Jews in nationalist Germany.

I'm having a little trouble with the wording here. Are you meaning that you think a genocide is more or less inevitable and will occur at the hands of someone or an organization to kill individuals who are "uninformed" (as you put it)? Or are you suggesting that such a thing is necessary and morally justified because of the nature of the world and how you currently see it?
 

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I know that humanity has a history of directly and indirectly annihilating various species, and there's no reason to think that we'll stop anytime soon.

I didn't know that there's a name for it.

(Citizen of the U.S.A. speaking.)
 

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I was aware of the event and our role in it.

Somewhere around 99 percent of all species that have ever lived are now extinct due to mass extinction events. In fact, the last extinction event (K-Pg) wiped out most of the species that were hanging around at the time. Nature then took the evolutionary reins and gave us some new species in its wake.

This event is unique in that one species is playing a huge role in it. This event is unique to us because we're currently part of the ecological system, but more importantly because we're a significant cause of it.

What are the implications? Do we have a moral obligation to protect other species, because of our special capacity to do so? Does this mass extinction have negative ecological effects? Would any negative consequences bite humanity in the ass later on? Are we, as a product of evolution just as are all other species, simply part of the natural cycle?

I mean all of these questions in the most neutral way possible. Making a good, sound moral judgment of our part hinges upon them, which itself is important because it would contribute to a course of action (if any).

But just as we're allowed to mourn the deaths of individuals within a species, including our own, we're allowed to mourn the death of a species as a whole; regardless of the answers to these questions.
 

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Your tone for this thread comes across as really belittling and snooty, and is really off putting. Yes I am aware. Most people aren't aware because the process is rather slow and rolling.
True. I don't even want to answer the question with the tone that [MENTION=122]marm[/MENTION]atoni used in creating this thread.
 

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Why 6th? Because some "expert" said so? Seems rather arbitrary to me. I demand testimonial evidence.
 

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I feel like duh, right?
 

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3 billion people know the other 2 don't cuz they don't get the news paper
 

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I'm having a little trouble with the wording here. Are you meaning that you think a genocide is more or less inevitable and will occur at the hands of someone or an organization to kill individuals who are "uninformed" (as you put it)? Or are you suggesting that such a thing is necessary and morally justified because of the nature of the world and how you currently see it?

I'm not advocating it, I'm just saying if it were to happen I could see it being very easily morally justified, especially since people who are part of the problem instead of part of the solution might be viewed as being efficiently disposed of, since it's probably best to get rid of someone, since the world is overpopulated and the problem is intensified by the population (we have killed off half our wildlife within a mere forty years, the population has doubled in 35).
 

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Why 6th? Because some "expert" said so? Seems rather arbitrary to me. I demand testimonial evidence.

It's not that difficult to find the information out there. :huh:
 

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Your tone for this thread comes across as really belittling and snooty, and is really off putting. Yes I am aware. Most people aren't aware because the process is rather slow and rolling. It's not like a natural disaster such as a hurricane where the effects are easy to see and present. Sadly, there isn't a darn thing we can do to stop this. The world is much too entrenched with how it currently works and there is not a single chance society is going to begin to organize and uproot for it. Things will have to get unfathomably bad before it does. Luckily for us, I don't think the most serious of effects will hit us in our lifetime.


You're wrong, it's man made and we can take action to stop it. If you would like to stop mansplaining to me about my "tone" maybe you could actually do some research.
 

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True. I don't even want to answer the question with the tone that [MENTION=122]marm[/MENTION]atoni used in creating this thread.

Just put me on ignore. I get tired of your passive aggressive comments, I know you don't like me, you have nothing of real value to say other than criticizing my tone, I have long suspected you of being an ISFJ.
 
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