Extinction

According to a study conducted by the WWF, the earth’s flora and fauna are at a critical level. Living organisms in the sea have dramatically fallen according to the findings of the study over the past decades, with the decline reaching as high as 50% in some specific species.

"There are examples of species all over the world that are essentially the walking dead," said Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich. "We are sawing off the limb that we are sitting on."

Three U.S. universities have issued a report warning that the Earth has entered a new period of extinction. The study by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley stated that vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normals and conclude that humans could be among the first casualties.

Scientist Johan Rockström says humanity has whizzed past four of the nine boundaries that keeps the planet hospitable to modern life. He points to the human civilization's transformation of the landscape as people have cut down forests and grown crops, all the time creating pollution and creating extinction for other species.