Disaster! Is the Earth experiencing its sixth mass extinction? Will mankind be able to escape extinction?

380 million years ago, the Earth was in the late Devonian period, when a second mass extinction occurred, and life on Earth was once again devastated. According to the research, the cause of the mass extinction of life may have caused by an asteroid impact, and the rapid growth of plants on land at that time could have caused ecological damage. Thus causing a disaster.

The third and most severe extinction, Permian Mass extinction about 250 million years ago, wiped out more than 95 percent of all life on Earth. The extinction was more likely caused by a massive volcanic eruption triggered by a mantle plume at the time. In addition to the extinction of life, it also triggered the separation of Pangea, which formed the shape of our modern continental plates.

About 200 million years ago, the Triassic Mass Extinction, the fourth mass extinction that accounted for 76% of all extinctions, was also caused by volcanic eruptions, and it was after this extinction that the dinosaurs as we know them began to dominate the planet. The fifth mass extinction, now known as the Cretaceous Mass extinction, led to the demise of the dinosaurs, the dominant creatures of the time, and a variety of beasts began to colonize the planet. There are numerous theories about the cause of this extinction, but the most widely accepted one is an asteroid impact.

It was noted that an asteroid with a diameter of more than ten kilometers collided with the Earth at that time, triggering natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Previous five mass extinction occurred when there were not many humans on the Earth. The victims of catastrophes were mostly animals and plants. However, humans are the dominant force in the world at present, and if there is a sixth mass extinction, humans will be the protagonist of this catastrophe. Scientists stress that humans are about to face the sixth mass extinction owing to the relentless global ecological environment.

A group of biologists has investigated the sixth mass extinction and found that between 150,000 and 260,000 of the more than two million species on Earth have gone extinct since 1500, or 7.5 to 13 percent of the total. Marine animals will account for a greater proportion of these extinction than land animals, and a significant number of these extinctions are such as to dispose of occurred before they were even discovered. To be more accurate, the researchers looked at invertebrates, which leave their shells behind when they die, making the study more accurate and convincing.

So it turns out that the extinction rate on Earth is far more severe than we think, and what's even more frightening is that the natural extinction rate, as defined by the natural science community, is actually between 150 and 260 species per million, which is much higher than the natural extinction rate. This shows that anthropogenic factors have a good influence on the extinction of organisms. If the first five mass extinctions were due to biological factors, then the sixth mass extinction was due to human activities that damaged the environment.

In recent years, the most serious topic discussed by people is global warming. People cutting down trees, burning fossil fuels and so on will emit a large amount of greenhouse gases, which is also the culprit in global warming. These gases absorb infrared light from the Earth and raise the temperature of the air, which helps with global warming. This will go hand in hand with the melting of glaciers, the rise of sea level and the redistribution of global precipitation, which will not only do great harm to the native ecosystem, but also affect human health and threaten human survival. So a sixth mass extinction is not out of the question, and it could be due to climate change.

Einstein once said that he did not know about the third World war, but if there is a fourth world war. Mankind must be conducted with stones and sticks, which also reveals the terrible nature of the extant nuclear crisis. We've seen what nuclear weapons can do in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now that the great powers have developed atomic weapons, the Hiroshima bomb was nothing compared to today's atomic weapons. The current international environment is not peaceful. Wars are everywhere, and the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine is even more complex and volatile. As we all know, there are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth dozen of time. As long as any country on the earth launches a nuclear war, the sixth mass extinction of life will be already too far away. So do you believe that the sixth mass extinction will actually happen? Leave a comment check on you in the comments section!