| Adapted for the Internet from: Why God Doesn't Exist |
Summary
A mass extinction is different than a background extinction. A mass extinction is by definition the collapse
of an entire food chain. At the most basic level, this involves the primary production on which the animals
depend. A grand family of plants is on the last, declining stretch of its S-curve. More modern plants are
squatting territory and driving them out. Meanwhile, the animal species that depend on this source for
food have grown mightier and more numerous. Animal mass is increasing at a strategically bad time for
both plants and animals of the archaic world. As the ancient lakes of plants dry up and go from pools to
puddles, the remnants of the previous mighty empire are caught stranded on shrinking islands. Inter and
intra-specific competition does the rest. It is when the ecological pyramid overturns that we suffer an
economic, mass extinction: the many feeding on the few. This is how T-Rex died. This is how Man will die.
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Module main page: We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
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Pages in this module:
- 1. A mass extinction results when the ecological pyramid overturns
2. The conveyor belt theory of extinction
3. The ecological pyramid overturns: a case study
4. A brief history of homosexuality
| I'm sorry son! I have bad news for you. The ecological pyramid overturned on us while we were hibernating, and there is nothing to eat out there. The good news -- for your mother and me at least -- is that we have decided to spare you the agony of starving to death! |