Friday, August 29, 2008

Within 100 years, human greenhouse emissions will eliminate one million of the (2 or 5 or 100) million species out there!

But which ones?
The natural and basic group of living things is a species. Biologists have now catalogued around two million species in our planet. Some scientists have suggested that there are about five million kinds of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and other living things on Earth. Others say that there could be as many as 100 million.
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We are now in the sixth period of mass extinction of living species. While the large scale annahilation of species in the past was a slow process and Nature-induced, the present massive extinction of species is super fast and caused by human activities. Climate change and global warming alone caused by man generated air pollution is conservatively calculated to eliminate one million species of living things in less than 100 years.

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