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Quercus_ t1_j1tt7lm wrote

Reply to comment by truecore in Polar bears dying at a rapid rate near Canada's "Polar Bear Capital" as Arctic sea ice disappears by decorama

Yes, species go extinct naturally, but at a very slow rate. On average a new species of animal lasts for several million years.

The rate of extinction on planet Earth right now is thousands or tens of thousands of times higher than normal.

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truecore t1_j1tx6hc wrote

Yes, I didn't deny any of that. I said what is worse is that they won't get replaced because we've stopped the processes of natural evolution in most species larger than bugs. Evolution has become an anthropogenic process. Worse still, you could probably say it's a capitalistic process where the survival of species is determined by worth and productivity.

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pakattak t1_j1uu4f8 wrote

In other words, if you're an animal you'd better be either cute or beneficial to human agriculture or you're fucked.

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