scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> Why do you think it is because of humans?

  Hundreds of species have been confirmed to have gone extint in the
past 100 years. Because only the most prominent species are noticed to
go extint, the true amount of extint species in the last 100 years is
estimated to be in the tens of thousands. This speed of mass extinction
is completely unprecedent (even the dinosaurs were not extinct even
nearly that fast). The amount of critically endangered species is
probably even larger. Also plants are going extint at an unprecedent rate.

  This phenomenon even has a name: The Holocene extinction event.

  Most of these extinctions have been directly attributed to human
intervention, such as destroying natural habitats, hunting and pollution.
It's not a coincidence that this mass extinction is happening at the same
time as the industrial revolution.

  Could the population loss of coelacanths happening right now be caused
by completely unrelated phenomena and its timing a complete coincidence?
Maybe. Rather big of a coincidence, though.

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