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 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.

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

No wonder so many good hearted people are depressed

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.

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”

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

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

This was an excellent segment

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Just like the story the old man tells in the film, Apocalypto… And a Man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said, "We do not like to see you so sad. Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it." The Man said, "I want to have good sight." The vulture replied, "You shall have mine." The Man said, "I want to be strong." The jaguar said, "You shall be strong like me." Then the Man said, "I long to know the secrets of the earth." The serpent replied, "I will show them to you." And so it went with all the animals. And when the Man had all the gifts that they could give, he left. Then the owl said to the other animals, "Now the Man knows much, he'll be able to do many things. Suddenly I am afraid." The deer said, "The Man has all that he needs. Now his sadness will stop." But the owl replied, "No. I saw a hole in the Man, deep like a hunger he will never fill. It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give.'"

Another truth is: we have a LOT of degraded land in Nevada, California, Texas, New Mexico, etc. We need to start ACTIVE re-greening campaigns to replenish our dwindling water reserves, protect wildlife, and our future food supplies. Industrial farming is no longer the solution

Well this was a big eye opener to me. What they are saying makes sense. Thank you 60 minutes for broadcasting this. 😢