Plants going Extinct, Animals Going Extinct, With Everything Extinct, Humans will be Going Extinct

Animal genera now go extinct at a rate thirty-five times faster than expected background rates over the past million years, an indication that the planet experiences a human-driven sixth mass extinction, when the extinction rate of 73 vertebrate genera over 500 years would have taken eighteen thousand years without human intervention.

The world’s plants now go extinct at a rate 500 times faster than they should, according to a study that analyzed the population of more than 330,000 seed-bearing plants around the world,  another indication the planet experiences a human-induced sixth extinction, with the disappearance of 571 species in the last 250 years, at a rate of roughly 18 to 26 extinction over million species per year, coming largely through human intervention.

The elements that make up a lot of things - from physicists' arsenal to a number of consumer goods - also go extinct at a rate faster than expected, with nearly 40 percent of the 118 elements involved facing extinction, as a result of human intervention.

Today, animals, plants, and elements such as gallium, helium, and indium face extinction as a result of human intervention, with more elements facing extinction threats to supplies within the next 100 years, elements such as arsenic, germanium, gold, tellurium, and zinc.

As human population rises past the eight million mark, things like fishing, farming, and poaching experience increases, meaning more than 500,000 land species now lack enough natural habitat for their survival, such as animal species that suffer over 85 percent of the world’s wetland having vanished since the 18th century.

As human-induced deforestation escalates, with the net loss in forests globally hitting 4.7 million hectares per year between 2010 and 2029, plants like sophora toromiro, cooksonia, Saint Helena olive, and others go extinct, making the average abundance of nature plants and animal life to show a decline of 20 percent or more.

As human exploitation of elements continues to rise, with humanity consuming  60 percent more resources than the planet can sustain, the red elements in the periodic table face serious extinction in the next 100 years, implying that they become difficult to find, recover, and reuse.

In essence, animals, plants, and the elements face even more precarious future due to the increase in human activities through deforestation and increased consumption, which explains the threat to elements such as arsenic, germanium, gold, helium, tellurium, and zinc.

Bees pollinate over 30 percent of crops that brings the world's foods, with 35 percent of the world’s food supplies coming through animal pollination, while a creature like the African elephant plays an important role in the forest, through forest regeneration by seed dispersal.

Three hundred to five hundred plants produce the oxygen needed by just one person to survive, while three trillion trees worldwide exist for eight billion people, with plants responsible for around seven to eight liters of oxygen we breathe every minute.

An element like zinc promotes numerous reactions pertaining to carbon dioxide metabolism, while arsenic performs an important function as an alloying agent, with tellurium used to vulcanize rubber to tinting glass and ceramics, an important element in solar cells, and in rewritable CDs and DVDs.

The extinction of animals, plants, and elements signifies a precarious future for  humans, who will pay dearly for putting plants and elements such as arsenic, gold, helium, tellurium, and zinc under the threat of extinction, through among other factors human-induced climate change.

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