Thursday, March 17, 2011

blog #5

There have been 5 major extinction events throughout history, are humans impacting the 6th? Why or why not?

Yes. Throughout history the five major events that have ended were cretaceous,permian , triassic, late devonian, and late ordovician is unviodable and can happen to humans today. Such as asteriod/comet impacts,climate changes,volcanic eruptions, sea level changes, and oxygen in the atmostphere. These causes can happen at anytime and thus happpening today wiping out millions of people. Humans, right now don't have the ability to prevent theese events from happening. Humans have been overexploiting lands, species, and overpopulation