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Humans are causing the sixth mass extinction.
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Is it true that humans are causing the sixth mass extinction?
Yes. Multiple peer-reviewed and reference sources state that human activities have pushed extinction rates far above background levels and that a sixth mass extinction is underway or beginning. A few items are truncated but still frame human activity as the cause.
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Holocene extinction. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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Ron, W. (2012). The Sixth Great Mass Extinction. eric.ed.gov. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ989544
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The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?. (n.d.). cir.nii.ac.jp. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12816
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The sixth mass extinction: Anthropocene and the human impact on biodiversity. (2013). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-013-0258-9
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What is mass extinction and are we facing a sixth one? | Natural History Museum. (n.d.). nhm.ac.uk. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html
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Gerardo, C., R., E. P., & D., B. A. (2015). Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. zenodo.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13514883
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life-the-science-of-biology-9th-ed.. (n.d.). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/life-the-science-of-biology-9th-ed.
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encyclopedia-of-time 202406. (n.d.). archive.org. https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-of-time_202406
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