LONDON: Humans have reached total domination on Earth, becoming the top predator on land and sea, a study has found.
The study from the University of Leicester shows human power over the natural environment has caused shifts in world ecosystems unprecedented in the last 500 million years.
The transition has led to the international decline in the variety of plants and animals through extinction, as organisms not useful to human needs are killed off by ecosystem changes or over-exploitation.
The biggest immediate losers will be large predators like tigers and lions, while creatures domesticated by humans, including house cats, will thrive in the new world, said Jan Zalasiewicz, a professor of palaeobiology at the University of Leicester in central England, and co-author of the study.
From weather patterns altered by the burning of fossil fuels to the loss of biodiversity through logging and urbanisation, humans are unsustainably exploiting the earth’s natural wealth.
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