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The sixth mass extinction is underway, based on a current researchElon Musk reacted to it saying human extinction is “imminent”He mentioned it may be prevented by making life “multiplanetary”
Tech billionaire Elon Musk believes the extinction of the human species is inevitable “until humanity makes life multiplanetary.”
The 50-year-old SpaceX and Tesla CEO and Neuralink co-founder reacted to a current research about mass extinction that somebody who goes by the title Massimo shared on Twitter on Sunday.
“There is a 100 [percent] likelihood of *all* species extinction as a result of growth of the solar,” Musk famous. “Unless humanity makes life multiplanetary.”
His remark echoed a press release made in December 2021, wherein he talked about his plan to create a “futuristic Noah’s ark” to move animals to the purple planet to save lots of them from full extinction.
“And the subsequent actually large factor is to construct a self-sustaining metropolis on Mars and produce the animals and creatures of Earth there. Sort of like a futuristic Noah’s ark. We’ll deliver greater than two, although — it is a little bit bizarre if there’s solely two,” he mentioned at the moment.
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But what did the research actually say?
Conducted by biologists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa) and the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and revealed in Biological Reviews, the research famous that the sixth mass extinction is already underway and nearly all of it was attributable to human actions. It additionally mentioned that 5% of the earlier extinctions of biodiversity have been attributable to pure phenomena.
“Incorporating estimates of the true variety of invertebrate extinctions results in the conclusion that the speed vastly exceeds the background fee and that we could certainly be witnessing the beginning of the Sixth Mass Extinction,” it mentioned additional.
Robert Cowie, analysis professor on the UH Manoa Pacific Biosciences Research Center within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and lead writer of the research, defined, “Including invertebrates was key to confirming that we’re certainly witnessing the onset of the Sixth Mass Extinction in Earth’s historical past.”
Interestingly, Musk’s proposed resolution was much like the suggestion beforehand made by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s satisfied that people will quickly reside on different planets.
“Over centuries, many individuals will likely be born in house,” Bezos mentioned throughout his speech on the Ignatius Forum in Washington D.C. in November 2021. “It will likely be their first dwelling. They will likely be born on these colonies, reside on these colonies, then they will go to Earth the way in which you’d go to, , Yellowstone National Park.”
Bezos can also be the founding father of Blue Origin, a privately funded aerospace producer and sub-orbital spaceflight providers firm that goals to make spaceflight accessible for the plenty.