Mass extinction date set by science.

[Aroura]

Yep. It's official folks... We've got 83 years to go before we put ourselves out of our own misery! Yay! Go humans!
Just thinking about all those starving people and children not having to suffer anymore! It brings a tear to my eye...

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandsci...spartandhp

Planet Earth appears to be on course for the start of a sixth mass extinction of life by about 2100 because of the amount of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere, according to a mathematical study of the five previous events in the last 540 million years.

Not that I disagree with the notion that we are headed for even WORSE mass extinction, but the 6th mass extinction already exists, and is currently underway.

Holocene Extinction

So the next one would technically be the 7th.  Would it even be different from the current, because although the root cause is the same (humans), the ultimate cause is not? (One is over hunting and direct habitat destruction via deforestation and such, the other would be more specifically from global climate change and ocean damage).

IDK, I think we are just going to see an acceleration of the current one, but it's not really NEW, per se....

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Turns out Dr. Seuss was a prophet, then. Only his hopeful ending seems less than likely now.