Global Warming Capable of Sparking Mass Species Extinctions

So what is worse, overpopulation and millions of humans dying from starvation or causing mass extinction of other species? It seems to me if we had less people and all worked together and had a fair, equitable, egalitarian global society we wouldn’t have to consider that tradeoff. That is what we are faced with now.

The study expands on a much-debated 2004 paper published in the journal Nature that suggested a quarter of the world’s species would be committed to extinction by 2050 as a result of global warming. This latest study picks up where the Nature paper left off, incorporating critiques and suggestions from other scientists while increasing the global scope of the research to include diverse hotspots around the world. The results reinforce the massive species extinction risks identified in the 2004 study.

“Climate change is rapidly becoming the most serious threats to the planet’s biodiversity,” said lead author Dr. Jay Malcolm, an assistant forestry professor at the University of Toronto. “This study provides even stronger scientific evidence that global warming will result in catastrophic species loss across the planet.”

One problem would be a further increase in global warming as healthier people produce more greenhouse gasses.