We are to say farewell to 1/13 of all species

[airiefairie]

Global warming to push 1 in 13 species to extinction: study

Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study projects.

It won't quite be as bad in North America, where only 1 in 20 species will be killed off because of climate change or Europe where the extinction rate is nearly as small. But in South America, that forecasted heat-caused extinction rate soars to 23 percent, the worst for any continent, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science. ...

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[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Is it our turn soon?

Farewell temperate period.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

Homo sapiens will survive - that is not the point. We have become adaptable enough, and we have technology and society. The point is that the environmental havoc that abrupt climate change may trigger, would also reflect on society, potentially causing ripples through the entire human civilisation.