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Earth's sixth mass extinction is already happening โ€” and it is rapidly accelerating, researchers warned in a study out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

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[โ€“] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Some say a comet will fall from the sky Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits

The way things are going a comet hitting the planet might be the best possible future.

We are past the point of no return for having a comfortably livable planet. Something that wipes out a huge portion of humanity to the point that we can't keep affecting the environment at a large scale.