NOTICIA DE LA SETMANA 9: "The Earth is on the verge of the sixth great extinction, but man can still avoid it"

"Human activities are bringing us closer to the sixth mass extinction in the history of planet Earth," said Forest Isbell, a researcher at the University of Minnesota and the first author of one of the articles published Wednesday.

Isbell has reviewed the most recent work that has studied man's benefits from species richness: for example, some have shown that reducing the biodiversity of forests lowers their wood production capacity.

 "The "technological anesthesia" makes us think that we can replace everything that nature gives us with technology, but the reality is that we can not replace everything," explained José Antonio González, professor of ecology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid . But, as the articles published in Nature reflect, this idea is increasingly overcome: "Little by little, we are realizing that our model depends 100% on biodiversity."



Commentary: I think that we need to do more things for save the planet, things like recycle, don't throw things to the grown, etc.

Glossary: I think that all the words in the notice are easy to understand.

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