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    This document discusses three waves of extinction caused by human activity. The First Wave Extinction occurred as humans spread across the globe as hunter-gatherers, driving many species to extinction. The Second Wave followed the spread of agriculture and farming. Now industrial activity is causing a Third Wave of extinction, and many ocean animals are at high risk of going extinct due to pollution and overfishing. Unless action is taken, whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins may go the way of prehistoric creatures like diprotodons that were driven to extinction by earlier humans.

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    This document discusses three waves of extinction caused by human activity. The First Wave Extinction occurred as humans spread across the globe as hunter-gatherers, driving many species to extinction. The Second Wave followed the spread of agriculture and farming. Now industrial activity is causing a Third Wave of extinction, and many ocean animals are at high risk of going extinct due to pollution and overfishing. Unless action is taken, whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins may go the way of prehistoric creatures like diprotodons that were driven to extinction by earlier humans.

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    This document discusses three waves of extinction caused by human activity. The First Wave Extinction occurred as humans spread across the globe as hunter-gatherers, driving many species to extinction. The Second Wave followed the spread of agriculture and farming. Now industrial activity is causing a Third Wave of extinction, and many ocean animals are at high risk of going extinct due to pollution and overfishing. Unless action is taken, whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins may go the way of prehistoric creatures like diprotodons that were driven to extinction by earlier humans.

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    which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans.

    The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the


    foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which
    accompanied the spread of the farmers, and gives us an important
    perspective on the Third Wave Extinction, which industrial activity is
    causing today. Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors
    lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution,
    Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most
    plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious
    distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.
    Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second
    Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they
    are part of. If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we
    might be more motivated to protect those that still survive. This is
    especially relevant to the large animals of the oceans. Unlike their
    terrestrial counterparts, the large sea animals suffered relatively little
    from the Cognitive and Agricultural Revolutions. But many of them are
    on the brink of extinction now as a result of industrial pollution and
    human overuse of oceanic resources. If things continue at the present
    pace, it is likely that whales, sharks, tuna and dolphins will follow the
    diprotodons, ground sloths and mammoths to oblivion. Among all the
    world’s large creatures, the only survivors of the human flood will be
    humans themselves, and the farmyard animals that serve as galley
    slaves
    in Noah’s Ark.
    FOR 2.5 MILLION YEARS HUMANS FED themselves by gathering plants
    and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention.
    Homo erectus, Homo ergaster and the Neanderthals plucked wild figs and
    hunted wild sheep without deciding where fig trees would take root, in
    which meadow a herd of sheep should graze, or which billy goat would
    inseminate which nanny goat. Homo sapiens spread from East Africa to
    the Middle East, to Europe and Asia, and finally to Australia and
    America – but everywhere they went, Sapiens too continued to live by
    gathering wild plants and hunting wild animals. Why do anything else
    when your lifestyle feeds you amply and supports a rich world of social
    structures, religious beliefs and political dynamics?

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