A new study predicts that by 2100, Earth might experience a mass extinction that will eliminate more than a quarter of the world’s species.
According to Daily Mail, Scientists from Australia and Europe have created a “virtual Earth” to more accurately map extinctions brought on by climate change.
The study was led by European Commission scientist Giovanni Strona and Professor Corey Bradshaw of Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
According to the findings, 10% of all plant and animal species will be extinct by 2050, and that number will rise to 27% by the end of this century.
The overuse of resources, altered land use, excessive harvesting, pollution, anthropogenic climate change, and “biological invasions” all to blame, according to scientists.
According to new modeling, climate change and land use might obliterate more than 25% of the world’s biodiversity. By 2050, 10% of Earth’s animal and plant species will be extinct, and that number will increase to 27% by 2100.
Over the course of human history, there have been five catastrophic extinctions, and according to experts, we are currently witnessing a sixth.
The first big extinction since the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to scientists, is due to humanity’s insatiable appetite for consumption and willful damage.
