Its not only species going extinct. 73 genera have disappeared in a “mutilation of the tree of life… Pictured in terms of the tree of life, if a single ‘twig’ (a species) falls off, nearby twigs can branch out relatively quickly, filling the gap much as the original twig would have. In this case, the diversity of species on the planet remains more or less stable. But when entire ‘branches’ (genera) fall off, it leaves a huge hole in the canopy – a loss of biodiversity that can take tens of millions of years to ‘regrow’… Humanity cannot wait that long for its life-support systems to recover…”
#Biodiversity #SixthMassExtinction #Overshoot
NEW SCIENCE: https://news.stanford.edu/2023/09/18/human-driven-mass-extinction-eliminating-entire-genera/
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