Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists | 60 Minutes

All I can say is, if we leave it up to the politicians, we're doomed.

We treat the earth as if we had somewhere else to go.

The earth isn't in any trouble we are. The earth will heal and be better than it is now.

Damn made a big mistake being born in the 2000's and not the fifties

No wonder so many good hearted people are depressed

I work in the USA in the restaurant business, 99% of all restaurant recyclables go right in the landfill, along with 50% of the food served. This is not sustainable. Wildlife has zero chance with humans gobbling everything up daily. It's sad to see a child drink water out of a plastic cup that gets thrown away 5 min later.

"If earth dies, humans die" "If humans die, the earth survives"

The Earth does not owe us ANYTHING. We owe the Earth EVERYTHING. But we treat it with distain.

I think it would be foolish of us to always presume that we could always just create another world after trashing the one we started out with.

This was an excellent segment

3:51 Yep so let’s push for cars that requires six times more minerals

Pretty much comes down to our way of life in the last hundred years kills everything around it. Cars, plastics, light, noise and it’s always expanding

"1,500 private jets have flown in here to hear David Attenborough speak about how we're wrecking the planet." ~Rutger Bregman at Davos.

He's so right - Earth is going to be just fine for billions of years; it is ourselves that we are endangering.

3:51 Yep so let’s push for cars that requires six times more minerals. SOUND THE ALARM. LOL.

Well this was a big eye opener to me. What they are saying makes sense. Thank you 60 minutes for broadcasting this. 😢

Growing up in the Northwest Georgia area in the 1960s, our home had many shade trees surrounding it: oak, walnut, cedar, and hickory. One thing that remained a constant in our day to day life was the many varied bird species whose songs we heard from sunrise to sunset. After my retirement I recently moved back home to help care for our elderly mother. The trees were still there, but the birds and their beautiful songs were almost nonexistent; greatly diminished. I listened over the summer nights for the chirping of the crickets I so vividly remembered from my youth. In both instances, the silence has been deafening.

I used to see and hear bumblebees in my yard every spring without fail. The past several years, I haven't seen any. It's scary how rapid the decline is occuring

Ah, the beauty of pride and greed at its finest.

It was Ed Wilson who first theorized this many decades ago in Diversity of Life. Great book, and hopefuly 60 minutes gives him credit.