Why the sixth mass extinction is here. Now.

Visit https://brilliant.org/simonclark/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. This week a new report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically looking at the impacts of climate change. It makes for grim reading. The report tells us that climate change is already impacting billions of people, and pushing wildlife to extinction. Further, these impacts are going to get worse the more carbon we put into the atmosphere. In this video I look at why the loss of species is particularly dangerous, risking sending us at breakneck speed into the sixth mass extinction in the history of our planet. Videos by other creators on WG2:    • The IPCC impacts and adaptation report exp...   My previous videos with Paulina:    • Ancient climate change - TERSANE   Support Durrell's work: https://www.durrell.org/wildlife/cons... REFERENCES (1) https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPC... (2) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146... You can support the channel by becoming a patron at   / simonoxfphys   Check out my website! https://www.simonoxfphys.com/ --------- II --------- My twitter -   / simonoxfphys   My facebook -   / youtubesimon   My insta -   / simonoxfphys   My goodreads -   / simonoxfphys   --------- II --------- Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com Edited by Luke Negus. This video is about the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looking at the impacts of climate change. It says this isn’t a future problem. Climate change is already un-aliving people. Destroying nature. Making the world poorer. This video focuses on the most existential threat posed by climate change - the damage it is doing to the biosphere, causing a new mass extinction. Humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in the history of Earth, something made much worse by global warming. Huge thanks to my supporters on Patreon: Tom Malcolm, Marcus Bosshard, Andrew Knop, Shab Kumar, Cameron Grey, Brady Johnston, Liat Khitman, Jesper Norsted, Kent & Krista Halloran, Rapssack, Kevin O'Connor, Timo Kerremans, Thines Ganeshamoorthy, Sam Harvey, Ashley Wilkins, Michael Parmenter, Samuel Baumgartner, Dan Sherman, ST0RMW1NG 1, Adrian Sand, Morten Engsvang, Josh Schiager, Farsight101, K.L, poundedjam, Daan Sneep, Felix Freiberger, Chris Field, Robert Connell, Jaime Stark, Kolbrandr, , Sebastain Graf, Dan Nelson, Shane O'Brien, Alex, Fujia Li, Harry Eakins, Will Tolley, Cody VanZandt, Jesper Koed, Jonathan Craske, Albrecht Striffler, Igor Francetic, Jack Troup, SexyCaveman , James Munro, Sean Richards, Kedar , Omar Miranda, Alastair Fortune, bitreign33 , Mat Allen, Anne Smith, Rafaela Corrêa Pereira, Colin J. Brown, Princess Andromeda, Mach_D, BenDent, Thusto , Andy Hartley, Lachlan Woods, Dan Hanvey, Simon Donkers, James Bridges, Liam , Andrea De Mezzo, Wendover Productions, Kendra Johnson.