Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes

We treat the earth as if we had somewhere else to go.

I work in the USA in the restaurant business, 99% of all restaurant recyclables go right in the landfill, along with 50% of the food served. This is not sustainable. Wildlife has zero chance with humans gobbling everything up daily. It's sad to see a child drink water out of a plastic cup that gets thrown away 5 min later.

i feel like crying. when we realized we f’d up, it will be too late 😢

Pretty much comes down to our way of life in the last hundred years kills everything around it. Cars, plastics, light, noise and it’s always expanding

I think it would be foolish of us to always presume that we could always just create another world after trashing the one we started out with.

No wonder so many good hearted people are depressed

"If earth dies, humans die" "If humans die, the earth survives"

We used to protest against the big companies doing damage to the earth, now a majority of the people don’t care either, they trash, graffiti, destroy everything that is beautiful. It’s heartbreaking, “You never know what you’ve lost, till its gone”

"1,500 private jets have flown in here to hear David Attenborough speak about how we're wrecking the planet." ~Rutger Bregman at Davos.

He's so right - Earth is going to be just fine for billions of years; it is ourselves that we are endangering.

The global population in 1900 was 1.6 billion. Between 1900 and 2023 it exploded to 8 billion. In all of human history our population has never seen such enormous growth as it has these last 123 years with the largest part of that growth occurring after WW2. To say this is unsustainable is an understatement.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

This was an excellent segment

Growing up in the Northwest Georgia area in the 1960s, our home had many shade trees surrounding it: oak, walnut, cedar, and hickory. One thing that remained a constant in our day to day life was the many varied bird species whose songs we heard from sunrise to sunset. After my retirement I recently moved back home to help care for our elderly mother. The trees were still there, but the birds and their beautiful songs were almost nonexistent; greatly diminished. I listened over the summer nights for the chirping of the crickets I so vividly remembered from my youth. In both instances, the silence has been deafening.

The earth isn't in any trouble we are. The earth will heal and be better than it is now.

Why do I also hear that our population is too small as well…..

All I can say is, if we leave it up to the politicians, we're doomed.

As a child of the 80s, I've had memories of hundreds of caterpillars in our yard, butterflies and bees that could be seen daily in the summer and the sun was a nice warm gentle orange color. Now I hardly see any of the insects of my youth and the sun is almost white and burns skin much more easily. Something is very wrong.

glad someone is finally addressing this!

Damn made a big mistake being born in the 2000's and not the fifties