Can Global Warming Threaten Our Mass Extinction?

http://www.eco-rescue.info Global leaders sign historic agreement with Governor Schwarzenegger at the Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles 2008. http://www.eco-rescue.com Afterwards, JOHN EMBIRICOS shares his insights. His company, Global Eco Rescue, or GER, aims to properly value nature as a capital asset - i.e. putting a price tag on deforestation and environmental degradation. GER has been chosen by government officials in Indonesia to conduct a pilot program, which may serve as a model around the world. 15:06 "We are losing life, as defined by different numbers of living creatures, different species on the planet, at a rate which, uh has apparently only been experienced several hundred million years ago 15:22 which led to what they call a mass extinction. 15:24 A mass extinction of life is defined as where you lose more than 50% of the known species on the planet. 15:30 And so that happened a couple of hundred million years ago. 15:35 the good news is that the planet recovered because it has a self-regulating mechanism. 15:39 it is one gigantic ecosystem.
Mother Earth, guya, those are synonyms. It did recover, and we have a lot of different species of life today. 15:50 but the catch is that I think if I remember correctly 15:56 the recovery period, after a mass extinction, is something like 100,000 years. So that is not very good news for us if we have to go through that." 16:06

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