Speaker 1: Well, a new study is out about another man made crisis.
Speaker 1: This time the threat is mass extinction. Yeah. Handful of
Speaker 1: scientists say that humans have damaged the Earth's ecosystem so
Speaker 1: horribly that we are headed for the biggest mass extension
Speaker 1: since the dinosaurs were wiped out sixty six million years ago.
Speaker 1: These scientists claim two species vanished every year, over two
Speaker 1: hundred in the last century. Of the seventy seven species
Speaker 1: of mammals have experienced a serious drop in population now.
Speaker 1: Co author of the study is the disgraced Stanford professor
Speaker 1: Paul Erlick. He says the asteroid that hit Earth wiping
Speaker 1: out the dinosaurs was not making a choice, but the
Speaker 1: coming mass extinction is the result of human choice over
Speaker 1: population over consumption by the rich. Erlick complains that wildlife
Speaker 1: habitats have been plowed under and paved, replaced by buildings
Speaker 1: and strip malls. Of course Amazon is going to fix that.
Speaker 1: Of course, this crisis come with a deadline. The study
Speaker 1: gives us only two or three decades to straighten the
Speaker 1: problem out, or else we're done. Mass extension will be
Speaker 1: so far gone we won't be able to recover. Let
Speaker 1: me turn back the hands of time ninety eight. That's
Speaker 1: what a young scientist named Paul Erlike wrote the population bomb.
Speaker 1: He predicted the population would double and the Earth would
Speaker 1: not have the resources to sustain it. So we wiped
Speaker 1: out twenty years ago by starvation. Except there's more of
Speaker 1: us here than ever populations doubled. Erlick is full of it.