Outlook is Grim for Mammals and Birds as Human Population Grows

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/humanftprint.htm

[font face=Serif]6/19/13

[font size=5]Outlook is Grim for Mammals and Birds as Human Population Grows[/font]

[font size=4]Average Growing Nation Can Expect 10.8 Percent More Threatened Species by 2050[/font]

[font size=3]COLUMBUS, Ohio – The ongoing global growth in the human population will inevitably crowd out mammals and birds and has the potential to threaten hundreds of species with extinction within 40 years, new research shows.

Scientists at The Ohio State University have determined that the average growing nation should expect at least 3.3 percent more threatened species in the next decade and an increase of 10.8 percent species threatened with extinction by 2050.

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“The data speak loud and clear that not only human population density, but the growth of the human population, is still having an effect on extinction threats to other species,” said Jeffrey McKee, professor of anthropology at Ohio State and lead author of the study.

The findings suggest that any truly meaningful biodiversity conservation efforts must take the expanding human population footprint into consideration – a subject that many consider taboo.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9586-8

[Auggie]

1. Grim via expanding population or as new food source?

As climate change reduces agricultural yields and global food supply, guess where humans will turn?

[ruffburr]

2. I Have A Theory-

Our planet is a living organism , As such it will make every effort to survive, People are the planets worst enemy , One way or another mother earth will make a major house cleaning,We are the dust bunny's, Wish it would differentiate between right wing and left but i don't think so, This Year or 20 years or 100 years it will happen, I can't say that i blame the old girl either.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Mother Nature just needs to put up her feet and wait.

Thanks to GMOs, we'll all be dead before supper.

[stuntcat]

4. The sooner the better

The mass-extinction we're starting will be one of the fastest the world's ever gone through. It's what breaks my heart, beyond broken..

But the fastest we run out our little experiment, the better chance all the rest of the species will have. The ones that are left when we run out.