Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction

The main indicator of a mass extinction is when species of all types begin disappearing at alarming rates. By its end at least 75% of the planets species die, never again to return. Nearly all of these mass extinctions were caused by climate change. After a mass extinction occurs, it can take millions of years for the Earth to re-establish a complex, diverse ecosystem like the one we humans have been thriving in for the last 300,000 years or so.

The mass extinction event taking place now has been named The Holocene and is notably mass extinction event has been started by us and our activity.

There have been five mass extinctions of life on our planet with the first occurring around 444 million years ago. The last one, called the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction that wiped out all of the large dinosaurs happened about 66 million years ago. So to say we’re witnessing the sixth mass extinction of life is a pretty bold statement. When the science community tells us it’s happening we should listen.

Believe it or not we find a potential silver lining to all this. If we made it we can at least help slow it down by, in part, changing our choices. No way to know for sure, but maybe we could even stop it at some point if we act now.

Not one of us can do that alone but if we act together through using our Giving Nature and choosing the PATHS that lead us to enviromental positive behaviors we’ll give hope to one another. Practiced awareness leads to clarity and is always the first step on the path to lasting change.

Click here to learn how eating Giving Nature eggs are an important part of finding and following PATHS to a better future for all of us.