The 6th Great Extinction, in the Shadow of Homo

The sixth mass extinction in deep time context

Peter Brannen's Great Simplification conversation on deep time, mass extinctions, and today frames this post's extinction theme.

Why it matters: current biodiversity loss sits on a geological scale that ordinary news cycles understate.

Listen to or read the linked talk for the deep-time framing. The takeaway is that Homo is driving a sixth extinction pulse with lasting earth-system consequences.