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Who is predicting a mass extinction event within our lifetimes?

e: I'm aware of the Holocene extinction. And as far as I'm aware there are no credible predictions that Humans will share the same fate within our lifetimes, which the parent was implying.

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Not predicting; if you’re measuring the rate of extinction of species we are very much in it and to a degree that’s on par with the greatest extinction events in earths history. The only question here is whether we will survive: given our dependency on oxygen and food produced by natural processes that is by no means certain. Furthermore the length of “our lifetimes” isn’t clear any more due to advances in technology.

Science? It's already ongoing.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/completely-terr...

Multiple groups are. Albeit for insects and coral reef, not for humans.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti...

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/105/37/13736.full.pdf

There are researchers starting to connect the dots on near-term human extinction. A good summary is 'The Uninhabitable Earth' by David Wallace-Wells: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-...

No need to predict, the insects are going through a mass extinction event right at the moment.

We're already in a mass extinction event and the effects of climate change are just slowly being felt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

No one is predicting it because predictions are usually about the future.

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