Since human beings appeared, species extinction is 35 times faster

Reality has debunked this sons of Malthus to the point of no return, and yet, here we are again with another 'boy who cried fire'. Your emotion of being alarmed is worth nothing Mr. Ehrlich, and that you are still in academia is a study case on its own.

For those interested in getting into the details, the starting point should be: Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

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Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak: Population Bombed!: Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change.

Now, to the actual insane argument P.E. is making. The reality is that exact opposite. There has been virtually no family extinction past several thousands of years (species extinction is inconsequential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species) . The biodiversity is in the number of taxonomy families is orders of magnitude larger now than ever in the history of earth as far as we can tell (factors over Cretaceous period before dinosaurs disappeared). Today, we have literally the most biodiverse biosphere in the history of Earth.

As humanity, we shall take the role of responsibility, first by understanding deeply nature - divorced from politics and narratives convenient to the ruling classes to keep control over the 'promethean fire'. P.E. unfortunately fails this repeatedly throughout his career.

“By losing all these genera, we are losing the foundations of the planet to have life in general and human life in particular. If you have a wall made of bricks, if you lose some, it won’t collapse but it won’t be as strong. If you lose many bricks, eventually it will collapse. The combination of the gases in the atmosphere that allows us to have life on the planet depends on plants, animals and organisms. People say that we are alarmist by saying that we expect a collapse. We are alarmist because we are alarmed,” he said.

“Extinction is irreversible,” he added. “From a more human-centric perspective, it’s almost impossible to predict which of these losses will have a significant impact on our own species. It’s an existential gamble we should think very hard about before taking.”