Peter Brannen wrote a book recently saying this does not yet qualify as the sixth major mass extinction, but to me these are mathematical quibbles. All of the causes of the horrific declines you cited are due to the actions of humanity, the life annihilator (though it's instructive from your post to see humanity is a piker compared to cyanobacteria in that regard).
The deaths of animal life due to human annihilation are surely on a planetary levels now, beyond our feeble attempts to mitigate or adapt to or comprehend. All human societies are annihilators, just on different scales and forms.
Try to see just one koala screaming (as in in one brief clip in the documentary "Greenwashed") as a human tries to put out its burns from human-induced habitat-destroying wildfires, and multiply it by all the animal deaths then and now caused by human ultrasocial predation. So many more to come, and nothing we, as a collective entity, can do about it.
Excellent command and analysis, as usual.
Peter Brannen wrote a book recently saying this does not yet qualify as the sixth major mass extinction, but to me these are mathematical quibbles. All of the causes of the horrific declines you cited are due to the actions of humanity, the life annihilator (though it's instructive from your post to see humanity is a piker compared to cyanobacteria in that regard).
The deaths of animal life due to human annihilation are surely on a planetary levels now, beyond our feeble attempts to mitigate or adapt to or comprehend. All human societies are annihilators, just on different scales and forms.
Try to see just one koala screaming (as in in one brief clip in the documentary "Greenwashed") as a human tries to put out its burns from human-induced habitat-destroying wildfires, and multiply it by all the animal deaths then and now caused by human ultrasocial predation. So many more to come, and nothing we, as a collective entity, can do about it.
Thanks! Agreed, and the stigma against “doomerism” essentially denies that doom has already been inflicted, discounting all this life-annihilation.