The Holocene extinction, sometimes called the Sixth Extinction, is a name proposed to describe the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (since around 10,000 BCE) mainly due to human activity. The large number of extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods. Although 875 extinctions occurring between 1500 and 2009 have been documented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,[1] the vast majority are undocumented. According to the species-area theory and based on upper-bound estimating, the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year.[2]
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Holocene extinction
Though this number seems horrific to all of us, none of us can actually say what is the normal amount of species that should be going extinct in any one year.
However, human overpopulation is definitely the cause of most of these extinctions as we change and alter habitats that animals and creatures on land, air and water lived often for millions of years in somewhat unchanging ecologies until man overpopulated earth and continues to overpopulate to the literal demise now of up to 140,000 species per year. Since they cannot defend themselves against mankind, who will defend mankind from himself as overpopulation continues?
Is the end result to be human extinction as well?
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