Earth has gone through tremendous changes in the past 4.6 billion years. From a united continent to seven continents spread all around Earth’s crust, species have evolved. Today, these changes are partly caused by human beings, rapidly causing a massive extinction—one that Elizabeth Kolbert calls the sixth extinction. Kolbert argues that due to humans getting involved in atmospheric and oceanic procedures, as well as affecting the principles of geographic distribution, we are either already in the process or at the very edge of this extinction. “We are running geological history backwards,” she stated during her lecture at Skidmore College. Carbon Dioxide, buried in the ocean basins, is now being exploited by humans for the purposes of industrialization.
