UN says the world has 10 years to prevent mass extinctions

This appeared in The Millennial Source

According to the United Nations (UN), humans have only ten years to prevent massive biodiversity loss across the globe. As the effects of climate change become more severe and the Earth’s climate gets warmer, many species are struggling to survive, prompting scientists to warn against the possibility that many of them might die off.

Past attempts to curb losses

In 2017, researchers published an article in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States of America, which laid out data indicating that the world is in the midst of a massive animal and plant extinction phase.

The researchers characterized the losses as a “biological annihilation” that represents a “frightening assault on the foundations of human civilization.” Human overcrowding and overconsumption were blamed for the crisis.

As humans take over an increasingly large portion of the Earth’s surface area, coupled with the effects of pollution and waste buildup, animals are finding it hard to find suitable places to inhabit.

This is important for human beings, experts say, because so many of the basic necessities of human life, such…