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In what sense? Seems realistic to me. The past ten years alone have been terrible for extinction; we lost about 500 species. And there is a feedback loop with these sorts of things.

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Do you have a source for that fishy number?

"Since 1900, 543 species of vertebrates have gone extinct. And those are just the ones we know of. In the past century, we have witnessed the disappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), the Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata), the laughing owl (Ninox albifacies), the sea mink (Neovison macrodon), and the golden toad (Incilius periglenes), to name a few."

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/less-than-a-thousand-remai...

@Omnitaus, you seem to be dead? Check the thread in incognito.

“In the past decade, 467 species have been declared extinct (though they might have gone extinct in decades prior), according to the global authority on species conservation status, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN.”

https://biobrief.org/species-the-world-lost-2010-2019/

And how many new species arose?

Is that an attempt at a counter argument?

Burden of proof is on you if you want to make a claim like that.

You're not accounting for adaptation, which nature is very good at.

Not at the timescale humans are forcing.

Things will probably fill in niches later, but there will still be a lot fewer species by the end of the century, which is what the original comment said.

Evolution takes time.

We are much better at consumption than nature is at adaptation.

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