The Slo-Mo Trainwreck Continues
 
The World is Having an Extinction Event  But We Live too Fast to See It.   Permian Extinction  - A quarter billion years ago.  75% of all Animal, 95% of all sea creatures and plants wiped out.   Took perhaps a two to three million years to happen.  The "big finish," the eruption of the Siberian Flats.     [source]   Even this  humongous catastrophe  took maybe a million years to finish the kill off.    Dinosaur Extinction - 66 million years ago.  All the dinos plus about half of plant life and sea creatures wiped out .  Took perhaps half a million years to happen.  The monster rock  that hit Earth (Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico), and some others, plus the Deccan Flats  eruptions in India were the villains.                                                                  [source]        [source]    We ...