(December 4, 2010 at 12:32 am)ziggystardust Wrote:(December 3, 2010 at 3:16 pm)Shell B Wrote: It isn't just the ocean.
Indeed, Homo Sapiens has been the only species in the whole history of planet earth (which is 4.6 billion years not 6000 thank you) that has caused a mass extinction event, something which only things like asteroids were able to do before homo sapiens came on the scene.
To be honest, I don't think that every species that is disappearing can be attributed to the human population. It is my belief that we are merely accelerating natural occurrences. For example, there is a fungus that biologists believe is causing declines in frog populations. Now, without human intervention, this fungus is likely capable of wiping out a few species of frogs. With human intervention, like transport of infected frogs, habitat destruction (which ultimately causes populations of animals to move), obviously more species become vulnerable.
