The Sixth Extinction: Human Impact on Earth's Biodiversity

The video discusses the 6th extinction, a human-caused mass extinction event. It highlights four major causes: climate change, industrial agriculture, pollution, and overhunting. Human activities like fossil fuel consumption, monocropping, and poaching are driving species to extinction. The video emphasizes the need for urgent action to reverse these trends and protect biodiversity.

What is monocropping and how does it affect biodiversity?

Explain the effects of plastic pollution in the oceans.

What measures can humans take to reverse the trends of mass extinction?