The 6th mass extinction hasn’t begun yet, study claims, but Earth is barreling toward it

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Earth has experienced five mass extinction events over its 4.5 billion-year history. A sixth mass extinction is underway as a result of human-driven climate change.

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[Snorrie]

In the past 5 mass extinctions, a common event is that the top predators went extinct. H. Sapiens may actually be on a trajectory towards self-extinction, i.e.: a local extinction via fossil fuel use, global trade and food production for an increasing human population and/or demand for resource use. Ref: "The Ends of the World" by Peter Brannen. The next 30 years may be what the Chinese refer to as "interesting times".