Extinction Timeline 1950-2050

by Scott Beale on May 17, 2008 · 6 comments

Extinction Timeline 1950-2050

image via Future Files

“Future Files, The History of The Next 50 Years” a book by Richard Watson, features a really interesting graphic showing an Extinction Timeline 1950-2050 (full-size image).

via The Presurfer

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1 Sammy D May 17, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Overly optimistic.

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2 Dean May 17, 2008 at 5:06 pm

There’s a lot of stuff I disagree with on that list, namely “Sit down breakfasts”, “Peace and Quiet”, “Thank you” and “SORRY”.

If these things do become insignificant, it will be a sad, sad future.

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3 Cat Laine May 21, 2008 at 6:21 am

They’re dead wrong about DDT which is still being used (at much lower concentrations that previously) to kill malaria causing mosquitoes throughout the world.

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