Rosemary A. Mason: The sixth mass extinction and chemicals in the environment: our environmental deficit is now beyond nature’s ability to regenerate

Two papers about the future of the planet appeared within a month of each other (June/July 2015): "Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction" was the first. The 6 authors calculated the average rate of vertebrate losses over the last century and compared it with the background rate of losses. They estimated it to be up to 114 times the background rate and asserted that this rate of losses of biodiversity indicated that a sixth mass extinction is already under way. "Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: Report of the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health" was the second paper. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the initial research on genetically modified organisms in the early 1940s and founded the science of molecular biology, a highly reductionist programme aimed at “understanding” life.The Rockefeller Foundation’s early involvement in eugenics research and its subsequent support for depopulation are unlikely to be consummated before the sixth mass extinction.

Source: Dr. Rosemary Mason. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry 15 (2015) 160–176