Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes

Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need “five more Earths” to maintain our current way of life.

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[danielg.]

All I can say is, if we leave it up to the politicians, we're doomed.

[CandC]

The Earth does not owe us ANYTHING. We owe the Earth EVERYTHING.
But we treat it with disdain.

[sislius]

We treat the earth as if we had somewhere else to go.

[Kenny-]

Damn made a big mistake being born in the 2000's and not the fifties

[catherinemothersill]

No wonder so many good hearted people are depressed

[HappyQuailsLC]

I think it would be foolish of us to always presume that we could always just create another world after trashing the one we started out with.

[shoryukengandhi]

The earth isn't in any trouble we are. The earth will heal and be better than it is now.

[villages]

_"If earth dies, humans die"_
_"If humans die, the earth survives"_

[afishcalledjuan]

I work in the USA in the restaurant business, 99% of all restaurant recyclables go right in the landfill, along with 50% of the food served. This is not sustainable. Wildlife has zero chance with humans gobbling everything up daily. It's sad to see a child drink water out of a plastic cup that gets thrown away 5 min later.

[liberty-matrix]

"1, 500 private jets have flown in here to hear David Attenborough speak about how we're wrecking the planet." ~Rutger Bregman at Davos.

[nickferro]

Pretty much comes down to our way of life in the last hundred years kills everything around it. Cars, plastics, light, noise and it’s always expanding

[busterbeagle]

3:51 Yep so let’s push for cars that requires six times more minerals

[bleuraven]

He's so right - Earth is going to be just fine for billions of years; it is ourselves that we are endangering.

[busterbeagle]

3:51 Yep so let’s push for cars that requires six times more minerals.
SOUND THE ALARM. LOL.

[louise]

Well this was a big eye opener to me. What they are saying makes sense. Thank you 60 minutes for broadcasting this. 😢

[TheCarnivalguy]

Growing up in the Northwest Georgia area in the 1960s, our home had many shade trees surrounding it: oak, walnut, cedar, and hickory. One thing that remained a constant in our day to day life was the many varied bird species whose songs we heard from sunrise to sunset. After my retirement I recently moved back home to help care for our elderly mother. The trees were still there, but the birds and their beautiful songs were almost nonexistent; greatly diminished. I listened over the summer nights for the chirping of the crickets I so vividly remembered from my youth. In both instances, the silence has been deafening.

[johnr.]

"They paved paradise and put up a parking took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them." - Joni Mitchell

[ToEnlightInLove]

Ah, the beauty of pride and greed at its finest.

[cosmicenigmarevealed]

The seals were just chilling the other day in the Sacramento river munching on fish all day having a good ole time😂

[JoMama]

I used to see and hear bumblebees in my yard every spring without fail. The past several years, I haven't seen any. It's scary how rapid the decline is occuring