It’s called a cascade extinction event. With each endangered species their ecosystem is affected, leading to more becoming endangered. Eventually a threshold will be passed where human intervention won’t be enough to save them from extinction.
Eventually a threshold will be passed where human intervention won’t be enough to save them from extinction.
It's unfair for humans to claim "saving" creatures from what humans have done to their respective ecosystems to begin with.
It's like setting a nursing home on fire and randomly helping 2 residents out as you leave. You didn't save 2 people, you murdered 198 instead of 200.
Yes and no, the humans doing the "saving" and the ones doing the "killing" are different groups. So it’s still technically a save but only as far as different humans have different interests. The culpability is still as a whole on us as a species.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you. Didn't know the word for this.
/c/dataisdepressing
This needs to be a community, for sure.
If the number is rising, they clearly aren't dying out. Checkmate atheist
Was about to write exactly that :D Foolproof logic.
Beautiful chart. I hate it.
Exactly my reaction.
Wonder how much is existing species going extinct versus more species being categorized?
I wonder the same thing, the little article that came with the chart did not explain this.
Shocking given that China has a massive trawling fleet that is literally emptying the oceans.
Soon we will have to battle the dolphins to hold or place
How much of this is due to finding a new species or something, versus a previously not endangered species becoming endangered?
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