CHAPTER 1: ANTHROPOCENE EXTINCTION
- Mark Howitt
- Nov 7, 2025
- 23 min read
Updated: Feb 1
Written by Mark Howitt
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
-Vishnu (from the Bhagavad Gita)
We are all bound to nature and the Earth in the fact that we require it for survival, and therefore our entire existence should be to ensure we follow the rules that govern survival. That should be our main priority and would solve a lot of the world's problems.
An extinction is considered to be a period of time in Earth's history when vast numbers of species abnormally perish, either on their own or simultaneously along with other species. According to scientists, there have been five mass extinction events in our earth's history, and we are currently in the process of the sixth mass extinction event, known as the Anthropocene Extinction. There have been many other extinction events on a smaller scale, but mass extinctions only occur when at least 75% of all life forms on the planet perish within a certain span of geological time. Prior "mass" extinctions are referred to as the Ordovician-Silurian, Late Devonian, Permian, Triassic-Jurassic and the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions. Our current extinction is the most sudden and widespread since the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction of the dinosaurs, approximately 66 million years ago.
The American Museum of Natural History did a poll in 1998 and discovered that a whopping 70% of biologists acknowledged the existence of the anthropogenic extinction. Scientific studies that were reported and published in Nature magazine in 2004, as well as the "Red List" of threatened species have also confirmed this fact, and surprisingly there are not many who know about it or have even heard the term "Anthropocene" before. More recently, in a November 2017 statement composed by eight authors, and signed by a staggering 15,364 scientists spanning 184 countries informed us that: "We have unleashed a mass extinction event, the sixth in roughly 540 million years, wherein many current life forms could be annihilated or at least committed to extinction by the end of this century." According to dire warnings from scientists, we are well underway in the sixth extinction and there is no turning back now. The surge of recent global space missions announced and launched between 2017-2020 seems to indicate an urgent need to explore our options and escape the planet, as was done by our ancient ancestors, leading to the discovery and colonization of this planet so long ago.
Our current Anthropocene extinction is often associated or linked with, and even sometimes referred to as the Holocene Extinction event, essentially correlating it to the global warming leading to the end of the last ice age. It is for this reason that there exists a Holocene-Anthropocene boundary between these periods of time and events. However, over time the term "Anthropocene" has been used almost definitively as a separate event, as the term means "due to human activity" and more accurately describes the cause of the extinction we are currently living in and witnessing. Despite this, and perhaps to remove the blame and guilt of human impact, Holocene extinction is sometimes used as the name to explain the same extinction event. Perhaps this is done as a way to put some of the blame on global warming and the environment as opposed to human impact.
There is no commonly agreed timeframe that definitively marks the beginning of the Anthropocene Extinction with the ending of the Quaternary extinction event that occurred at the end of the last ice age, and putting a date to the start of the Anthropocene event has been debated steadily. What has become apparent and stands firm, however, is that humans are the direct cause for our current extinction and there exists vast amounts of evidence to support this. Likewise, it seems to also provide evidence that humans could not have inhabited and lived on this planet for as long as originally thought. If we were, then our current extinction would have happened during a much earlier period in our history, as will be explained. I believe we did come to this planet, and our ancestors knew of its existence, but we did not colonize and start building civilizations until a much more recent time in our history.
The boundary or point in time when the change from Holocene transitions into Anthropocene has been claimed by some to be around the time of the industrial revolution, while others have placed it during the Holocene Epoch, and the visible notice of human influence on global climate. Others have suggested that the anthropogenic extinctions began when the first modern humans began to migrate and spread out throughout Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. Despite these suggestions for a starting point, we know that most of the environmental changes such as global warming are the direct cause of human impact on the planet. Therefore, it seems more accurate to describe our current extinction by its suggested name, the Anthropocene Extinction, which was the term introduced for it in the year 2000.
ENDANGERED SPECIES
I have noticed while doing research that over time, it seems as though animals have become smaller over time, with the largest species such as the dinosaurs being killed off entirely. The largest animals currently living on the planet, such as the elephant, whales, giraffes, rhinoceros, hippopotamus and other large species are on the extinction list or have completely died off already. Even during our time as this is being written, species continue to die off, and numbers dwindle and it seems the largest animals living are the ones that are threatened the most or have the least amount of living populations.
It is quite intriguing to note however, that the last documented sighting of a living woolly mammoth on our planet was not so long ago. This sighting was recorded by U.S. Naval Officer Admiral Richard E. Byrd in his diary during his Antarctic expedition just following World War II. According to his diary, which was dated February 19th 1947, he excitedly wrote: "1005 Hours- I alter altitude to 1400 feet and execute a sharp left turn to better examine the valley below. It is green with either moss or a type of tight knit grass. The Light here seems different. I cannot see the Sun anymore. We make another left turn and we spot what seems to be a large animal of some kind below us. It appears to be an elephant! NO!!! It looks more like a mammoth! This is incredible! Yet, there it is! Decrease altitude to 1000 feet and take binoculars to better examine the animal. It is confirmed - it is definitely a mammoth-like animal! Report this to base camp."
It may be that extremely cold temperatures preserved the last of the species where they were protected from the human impact of trophy hunting and destruction of their habitat. Several preserved prehistoric animal discoveries were also found in Siberia and Northern Russia, dating to a much more recent time then they had originally been proposed to have gone extinct. One of the animals discovered in Russia and Siberia included the Siberian Unicorn, scientifically known as the Elasmotherium Sibiricu. Since these discoveries, scientific laboratories have been set up in Russia as well as in Siberia to clone these prehistoric animals.
In more recent times, a rare male Northern White Rhinoceros in captivity at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park named Angalifu died in December of 2014, leaving only three remaining alive on the planet. According to Mike Barrett, director of science and policy at the UK branch of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), "For the first time since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we face a global mass extinction of wildlife. We ignore the decline of other species at our peril – for they are the barometer that reveals our impact on the world that sustains us."
An entire species that faces extinction are the beautiful majestic big cats of the world, as their numbers have significantly dropped. According to the world's foremost authority on the status of the natural world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that lions have went down from 450,000 to 25,000, the leopard population is down from 750,000 to just 50,000, 12,000 cheetahs left from 45,000, and from 50,000 tigers there remains only 3000 left in the wild.
According to a 2016 study that was done by the Zoological Society of London in association with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Corporation, there remains just over 7000 cheetahs remaining living in the wild, and who are now living within just 9% of their natural historic habitat. The estimates seem to be much higher than the numbers that have been studied it seems. Cheetahs have been pushed back by the pressures of human impact including overhunting of their prey, loss of their natural habitat due to pollution and environmental destruction and killing from farmers and the illegal wildlife trade.
Co-founder of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative, naturalist Dereck Joubert believes that "We are seeing the effects of 7 billion people on the planet. At present rates, we will lose the big cats in 10 to 15 years." Perhaps it is not by chance nor accident then, that when I typed the words "Big Cat H..." into the Google search engine, the first suggested title that appeared at the top of the list read "Big Cat Hunting Success Rates."
It is often hard to discover definitive proof of statistical information especially in regard to specific topics, and an example of this can be found on the website of the Nature Observancy of Canada (NOC). The conservations status of the leatherback sea turtle is listed as "endangered," however the description above it outlining their habitat range claims that they are "one of the most widespread species of reptile. They can be found throughout both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and have been seen in Canada off of Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, Newfoundland and the Maritime provinces."
This might be on the website as the result of a poor choice in wording, or it may be possible that they are referring to a group of leatherback sea turtles in Malaysia that were reported as threatened, but after all, we must give credit where it is due and it is certainly no miniscule task monitoring the entire population numbers of certain species, especially if they have the ability to swim or fly vast distances within the blink of an eye. Despite the strange wording of the website, the leatherback sea turtle is officially considered an endangered and at-risk species, as recognized by the CSEWC, or the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
Leatherback sea turtles are sometimes referred to as "Lute Turtles" and are very likely the last remnants of turtle species dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. Leatherbacks can weigh up to 700 kg and are the world's largest species of turtle. To see one, you might think you were looking at something straight out of a Jurassic Park movie. Remembering back to what I previously mentioned, this observation adds further evidence to my theory that over periods of time larger creatures die off before the smaller ones do. If this is indeed true, then following the same principles we can therefore also theorize that we may soon be the largest beings on the planet and if we continue to go down the cycle until the end, we get to micro-organisms, bacteria, viruses and all the invisible creepy crawlies. And yet this aspect too also seems to fit in place with the theory, making logical sense for if is bacteria, viruses and other microscopic things that would be the smallest in the spectrum, they would be the last survivors.
And they are indeed the last survivors, being the last ones standing at the crime scene so to speak. This is evidenced even now with our current understanding of life, as we know that when organic and biological material breaks down, it is bacteria cultures that feed from the deteriorating remnants, and this energy keeps the feeding organisms alive. When the organic material is consumed and gone, the bacteria and viruses are still present as an invisible force. Furthermore, if we follow the cycles and patterns found in nature, we can see that things start anew, in new forms such as providing fertilizer for plant growth or carbon dioxide for the atmosphere. Everything must always work in harmony for it to work and make sense. When life starts anew, it is again at the small level. From the invisible thought of the initial idea to seed to the seed itself, from the sperm to the cell to egg to the spore. These seeds are all small in size, with the potential to grow large and then small again to continue the cycle.
Gray whales were threatened to the point of extinction, especially in the northern Pacific region. As a result of these low numbers, they were put on the endangered species list and an effort to bring their numbers up began. At this time, there are around 18,000 gray whales in the world, and as a result were removed from the endangered species list in 1994. Gray whales are still protected under law by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, along with other threatened species.
Many species numbers have increased since the time it was initially discovered that their numbers were low and announced on the endangered species list. This is the direct result of keeping clean, true and sound scientific records over extended periods of time, while continuing to study the behavior of threatened species. The other factor involved in saving several species from reaching an extinction event, and the more important one in my personal opinion, was the direct result of a thought. Human intervention, love, aid, and care played a huge role in repopulating threatened animal species on the earth. This very deed, the ability to control, create, and maintain life itself on the planet, resembles that of an act of God. This is a topic that is elaborated on in more depth within other sections of this book.
While it is true that many species of insects, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals are dying off naturally due to the outcome of environmental changes, as well as the impact of the human footprint within the web of life, we alike are suffering within the environment we live in. We are essentially poking the bear while biting the hand that feeds us, resulting in nature biting back on several fronts. It's almost as if we are committing suicide by using nature as a bullet and our planet as our gun.
CONTINENTAL LIFE CYCLES
Continents are large islands essentially and have ecosystems of their own, with species unique to those locations that can thrive on their own if they are not interrupted by unnatural influences or disturbances. We see a direct connection with the arrival of humans on new islands and the beginning of various extinction events. This includes the loss of megafauna and fauna starting at the time of human arrival, until species are completely hunted or destroyed by disturbances caused to food chains and other bio-systems that exist in harmony together naturally on their own.
Evidence shows that human relation to the extinction of plants, animals, and other life forms may go as far back as the Pleistocene period, over 12,000 years ago. Research also shows that species are entirely wiped out over time and that the more people multiply in those areas, this rate of loss is drastically and critically increased. Therefore, continents can only support human life for a certain amount of time before we reach our current predicament in the form of the Anthropocene Extinction. If humans really did evolve from monkeys, we would have been on this planet for a long enough time to have extracted all of its main non-renewable resources by now. It seems that this should have happened at a much earlier period in history, as patterns and records seem to indicate.
Evidence to support this notion can be found on the islands of New Zealand and Madagascar. There was once a time when megafauna could be found on every continent of the world and even larger islands and microcontinents. Islands such as New Zealand and Madagascar were once thriving with various animals and plant life, but are now only found nearly exclusively in Africa, and even those numbers are dwindling. In regards to the island masses of Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and Hawaii to name but a few examples, population reduction and trophic cascades begin following the arrival of human settlers to those lands. Much of this megafaunal extinction is directly related to the overhunting of these species, or the hunting of their food source and manipulation of the environment due to agriculture and the destruction of habitats to build centers of human activity. Human ecology has had a global effect on food webs. It is for this reason that humans have been deemed as "Global Super-Predators".
It is not just in places like Hawaii and Australia that this can be evidenced, as extinctions of species has occurred in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, as well as every ocean found on earth. Since this ocean is essentially one body, the entire ocean is also showing signs of human ecological impact. According to scientific reports, 2010 was among one of the worst years for coral death in the Caribbean. Coral bleaching, as coral die-off is referred to, continues to have a domino effect on the ocean's ecosystem. Indeed, a majority of the reasons for coral bleaching is anthropogenic, such as the mining of coral and offshore drilling, organic and non-organic pollution, overfishing of areas and blast fishing, development of infrastructure and underwater digging of canals to name a few.
The effects of human overpopulation as well as the continual rise in human population growth can easily be identified in graphs and charts. The patterns of our population growth along with the factor of overconsumption and the growth of consumption correlating to the population growth are evidenced most prominently within the past two centuries and is often associated with the rise of the industrial revolution. The human impact on the planet is inarguably the cause of the current predicament of our species.
The earth, being a connective living organism with all things upon it, can only sustain life for so long. It just takes a simple look at the history of human population levels on the earth and its sudden, then gradually explosive rise to indicate that clearly, we have not been on this planet for that long. And yet it has been engrained upon us that we evolved from monkeys over long periods of time, and no model put forth to explain then, what do we become after human?
Therefore, it must be assumed that if life has developed on other planets, than planets that can sustain life must have a certain life span or length of time that it can sustain life upon it, if at all. We understand that certain planets cannot sustain life due to their positions in retrospect to their suns, and earth is at just the right distance. This is why astronomers seek the goldilocks zones of stars for planets that may contain life, or essentially, us if we needed to jump ship. Perhaps, it has been found which is why the sudden increase in space budget spending globally, or at least by all countries with a developed space program. But have we heard about it? Of course not. And we won't, until they have established a developed infrastructure there first, to set up a system of planetary control as found on earth and our worlds rulers. Our rulers do not want the people of the earth to be lining up for space flight travel tickets anytime soon, that's for certain.
It must also be noted that the way our world functions today, with business and the globalist infrastructure, is what is directly destroying us. Yet we do not learn, and do not disconnect from its polluted veins. It seems we are doomed as punishment from not learning from our mistakes, and actually making the drastic changes needed for continual survival. It is to my belief that it is only human beings that can destroy a planet or cause an extinction on the scale that we have, as all other things found in nature are harmonious with each other. The earth has been here for a very long time, but we have not. And the earth will continue to be here for a very long time without us, until it is eventually scorched when our sun turns into a red dwarf, or it meets its end prior by a cataclysmic galactic event. We will then have to travel or migrate to another planet for survival, which is currently in the works as it seems.
In an article and study that was published in Nature on December 16th, 2015, paleobiologist S. Kathleen Lyons from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, along with her research team from the University of Vermont showed additional evidence to support the cause of the Anthropocene as being human related. Their study showed that a 300-million-year pattern or natural harmony changed about 6000 years ago, right around the time that humans began large communities and agricultural and farming development. Fossil records show that the structures of plant and animal communities remained relatively unchanged until human disruption. Essentially, the study proves that humans are the direct cause of this change found in nature and using ecological statistics, Nick Gotelli, biologist from the University of Vermont, was able to discover the patterns. Gotelli claims "When early humans started farming and became dominant in the terrestrial landscape, we see this dramatic restructuring of plant and animal communities...If we are thinking about how we're going to restore ecosystems, or how they're going to respond to climate change, we need to understand how they were organized before humans ever came on the scene."
According to Lyons, "This tells us that humans have been having a massive effect on the environment for a very long time." Lyons goes on to say that the current way of life for humans are "orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing." Their research discovered that from about 307 million years ago until just 3000 years ago, a higher frequency of aggregated species pairs was found, whereas from 6000 years ago until the present this pattern changed, showing a predominance of segregated species pairs.
Despite massive disturbances such as climate change, asteroid impacts, and natural disasters, the aggregated species remained the same but during the Neolithic revolution this changed, where communities of plants and animals show less co-occurrence in the fossil record. Another co-author of the study, paleobiologist Anna K. Behrensmeyer with the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History said, "This pattern didn't change because of previous mass extinctions or ancient climate variability, but instead, early human activities 6,000 years ago suddenly began resetting a basic property of natural communities."
MASS EXTINCTIONS
It only takes a brief look into past mass extinctions to make the connection. Although there have been several devastating extinctions, our current extinction has the greatest implications and is unique in its own ways. Humans, therefore, are a unique anomaly in ecology being the top of the food chain by a long shot. Humans are the only living thing that has such an impact on climatic systems as well as food chains worldwide. Many population reduction examples exist directly correlating with the arrival of humans in the area. Our current extinction is the only mass extinction caused by humans directly, and not an act of natural environmental change or an asteroid impact.
According to scientists, there were 3 causes of all other extinctions which all occurred from natural processes. These include a dozen sea-level falls, in which seven of them are directly associated with extinctions, 11 occurrences of flood-basalt events in which volcanos played a role, in whereas all of them are associated with extinctions. The other cause of natural extinction is due to an asteroid impact in which only one, the Cretaceous-Paleogene or KT, caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. There have been numerous smaller impacts from asteroids but nothing that has been associated with any significant extinction events.
The first major extinction and the third largest in Earth's history was the Ordovician-Silurian event, which occurred approximately 439 million years ago and resulted in a loss of around 86% of all life on earth. This period of time had two distinguishable peaks which were separated by hundreds of thousands of years. A majority of the life killed off during the Ordovician period were aquatic life forms such as graptolites and brachiopods, while trilobites survived due to their harder exoskeletons. According to scientific studies this extinction was a result of glaciation and dropping sea levels, perhaps the result of the formation of the Appalachian mountain range. Some have proposed that it was caused by a lack of carbon dioxide in the air due to an overabundance of plant life, which drastically brought down global temperatures. It has also been noted that surprisingly, or not, following this extinction there was no noticeable major changes in species. Evolutionists claim that species adapt and evolve as a result of these conditions, and yet it is not seen in the record after the Ordovician-Silurian event.
The Late Devonian Extinction enveloped around 364 million years ago, and humans have not decided yet whether or not it was a single event or a series of extinctions occurring over several millions of years. According to scientific estimates around three quarters of life died off, a 75% global extinction rate. It has been motioned that plants are again a likely cause to this extinction, as large land plants had long roots which penetrated deep into the earth releasing vast amounts of nutrients into the oceans. Algal blooms were formed due to the increase in nutrient rich water and as a result the oxygen levels in the seas and oceans were depleted killing off animal life. Coral reefs were severely affected and took over 100 million years to replenish. Trilobites, although surviving the Ordovician-Silurian time frame became nearly extinct during the late Devonian period. It is also thought that volcanic ash cooled down the earths temperatures which led to the extinction of many species of insects that were on land at this time such as spiders and scorpions. Elpistostegalians, an amphibian relative was on land at this time and became extinct and it is said that vertebrae creatures did not resurface on land until around 10 million years later, with the ichthyostegalians. It is the ichthyostegalians in which evolutionists claim human beings evolved from, stating that if the extinction of the late Devonian had not come to pass, humans would not exist today.
The worst extinction in the history of the earth thus far, according to scientists, was the Permian–Triassic extinction which occurred approximately 251 million years ago. This extinction has been dubbed "The Great Dying" for it killed off 96% of all species on the planet. Therefore, according to the evolutionist theory, we are considered to have descended from the remaining 4% of species that survived. This statistic is truly outstanding, as the chances of life flourishing and evolving as it did following this supposed slight margin of survival is truly astronomical. This extinction was said to have been caused by a massive volcanic eruption which filled the air with carbon dioxide and warmed the earth, feeding various forms of bacteria that in turn began giving off large amounts of methane. The oceans became acidic which destroyed much of the coral species, and it is said that new forms of marine life developed drastically, resulting in a complexity of life forms such as snails, crustaceans such as crabs, sea urchins, and many other new species.
Following in the footsteps of the Permian-Triassic extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction took place between 199 million and 214 million years ago, happening in phases over time wiping out species in the process. The cause of this extinction is said to have been the result of a triple threat, involving an asteroid impact, climate change, and flood basalt eruptions. During the later portion of the Triassic period, for about 18 million years mammals existed as well as dinosaurs, but mammals originally outnumbered the dinosaur population. The mammals dwindled overtime leading to the Jurassic period when ancestors of the dinosaurs such as archosaurs dominated the earth, leading to the dinosaurs that later roamed the earth and existed for about 135 million years.
The major extinction event known as the K-T extinction, or the Cretaceous–Paleogene or Cretaceous-Tertiary event is the most well-known of the "Big 5" extinctions, surprisingly even more known that the one we are currently living in, a sure sign of the times. The reason it is the most notorious, often the only one being known, is because it is the Chicxulub asteroid extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. The impact crater of the asteroid was located in Chicxulub in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. At the end of the Cretaceous period, many other life forms died off as well including many types of plants, ammonites and the last of the pterosaurs. Coupled with volcanic activity, a reason images of dinosaurs are often depicted with volcanos in the background, and climate change caused by the aftermath of the impact and effect of the volcanic eruptions led to the end of 76% of life on earth and the extinction of the dinosaurs. According to scientists, every species on earth that weighed over 55 pounds perished as a result of this extinction. This allowed for mammals to dominate the land and sharks the sea.
As you can clearly see, none of these scenarios of any of the previous extinctions involves human activity and were naturally caused. This indicates that it is possible for an extinction to occur through natural causes, but life goes on. The differences between the current extinction and those of past is vital. Human impact has blossomed into a behemoth at an alarming rate, and yet in such a sliver of time in comparison to the earth's history and previous extinctions. Likewise, we are an outside source aiding in the destruction of the natural cycle which when unhindered functions properly and flourishes onward. With human interjection, there lies grave consequences. The Native Americans would most certainly hunt their food, but they considered these animals sacred to the earth and their way of life. They respected these living creatures and always gave back what they took with offerings, and utilized the animal in its entirety, from its meat to its bones, and its skin to its fur. They understood procreation and the value in not killing off more than what was needed, but when the colonialist's arrived species like buffalo were nearly entirely exterminated and over hunted. This is but a small example of the lack of respect and understanding modern industries have in regard to the balance of life.
ICE AGES
In total there have been at least 5 ice ages. The first 4 are known as the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, and the Karoo Ice Ages. We are currently living in an interglacial period of the last ice age, known as the Quaternary Ice Age. This interglacial period began about 11,700 years ago, according to scientists, with the beginning of the Holocene Epoch. Out of the 5 ice ages, it is believed that the second, the Huronian, was the most severe, and just as with the first ice age created a "Snowball Earth", where the entire surface of the Earth froze over. The Huronian Ice Age is estimated to have occurred in the Neoproterozoic Era at some point around 720-635 million years ago. It has been hypothesized that the end of the Huronian Ice Age was largely responsible for the sudden explosion of life that occurred known as the "Cambrian Explosion" event, where multi-celled life forms began to rapidly diversify.
Scientists believe that the reason for the occurrences of ice ages is due to changes in the amount of incoming solar radiation known as "insolation", which caused climate changes to occur. A fluctuation in the timing and the intensity of the sun is what many believe to be the cause of evidenced glacial and interglacial cycles. This is caused by changes in the sun itself, or perhaps the distance of the Earth to its solar energy source.
Another theory regarding the ice age is known as the Milankovitch Theory, which suggests the 100,000-year glaciation cycle documented in ice core records was likely the cause of orbital eccentricity caused by the torque from Jupiter and Venus on Earth's orbit. This gravitational pull from Jupiter and Venus distorted the orbit of the Earth around the Sun causing longer and colder winters, and summers did not melt the abundance of snow that would fall creating an ice age, the most recent of which began around 70,000 years ago.
THE RATE OF EXTINCTION
Of the many reasons we are currently in the state of a mass extinction is not only because of overfishing and overhunting, but also because of the "industry footprint", and not so much a "carbon footprint". Blame is always put off onto the element of carbon as the bad guy, and this comes from the culprits, a reason we are in the predicament we are in as a species. It is almost as if it is being done deliberately without any checks and measures. There has been a significant decline in biodiversity due to the continual growth of the human population, as well as the expansion of harmful industries profiting from outdated technologies that are polluting the earth, when there are countless examples of free energy and clean devices and technologies that could be utilized.
Again, this seems deliberate and it is, all in the name of profit, control and power. But could this also be happening because of more nefarious reasoning? As in, an intentional destruction of the planet so that a new planet discovered could be colonized with a controlled population consisting of royalty, elites and so-called nobles. Profligate consumption has dire consequences and yet it truly seems that no one seems to care and nothing is being done about it despite the implications of such an important matter. As in the story of Noah's ark, there perhaps exists a clue. In the famous story God punishes mankind by telling Noah to gather all the animals to survive in an ark. He then purposefully "cleanses" the earth leaving Noah to replenish the earth. Could it be that Oz, the ones pulling the strings are intentionally attempting to reduce the Earth's population so as to start anew?
Indeed, the current extinction rate is exceedingly higher than average. This rate, according to the estimates of scientists is between 1000 and 10,000 times higher than the average background rate, or base historical rate of extinction in regard to the natural process of extinction and evolution of the planet. The natural rate of extinction is known as the "background rate" and is the loss of one to five species annually. According to some scientists, we are losing up to a dozen species per day. Therefore, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than any other mass extinction on record. This means, that even though natural disasters happened in the past causing loss of life, our current rate is higher adding further evidence to support that humans are out of place with nature on the planet, an anomaly, and our arrival on this planet has had a great impact upon it ever since. Because our current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than any other extinction on earth, it is expected to reach up to 10,000 times higher than the average background rate. As rates increase, total annihilation seems like a vivid possibility, and yet these rates only climb due to the literal human footprint on the earth. It is estimated that as many as 30-50% of all species on Earth will be on the brink of extinction or extinct already by the middle of the 21st century.
According to the world's leading ant expert, Harvard biologist, researcher, naturalist and author Edward Osborne Wilson in his 2002 book "The Future of Life" calculated and concluded that if the current rate of extinction caused by human disruption of the biosphere continues to escalate, half of the earths higher intelligent life forms will become extinct by the year 2100. It seems as knowledge is a double-edged sword, as knowing too much and having too much technology is actually going to destroy us. Maybe the bible was metaphorically right after all, as knowledge was the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
It seems to me, that at this rate there can be no further extinctions. It appears that we have reached an Epochalypse. This is it, for our imprint on the earth will have had such a devastating effect on the planet that it will have become uninhabitable. By this time, certain sections of the Earth's population will have fled to start anew on another planet in our never-ending search for habitable lands.
SOURCES
Report: Journal of Geology - http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695703
Website: Admiral Byrd's Diary - https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/esp_tierra_hueca_2d.htm
Book: Raymond Bonner - At the Hand of Man - Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife (1987) (pg 66-71)
Website: https://protectallwildlifeblog.com/did-you-know-that-the-wwf-endorses-the-killing-of-wild-animals/
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