and everyone today the un released a one thousand page report on the human threat to bio diversity now the headline coming from that one million species are facing extinction because of the unsustainable way modern humans live it is a bleak picture painted by one hundred forty five scientists from fifty countries never before have humans been so successful at changing and consuming their environment and exploding global population with an insatiable appetite to consume resources the result today is a global rate of species extinction that is up to one hundred times higher than it has ever been in the last ten million years that the un details five main drivers of species loss let's go through those for you the human use of land in sea that's number one seventy five percent of the earth's entire landmass has been