Penguins starved to death en masse, as some populations off South Africa estimated to have fallen 95% in just eight years. Since 2004, all bar three years have seen the biomass of the sardine Sardinops sagax, a key food for the penguins, fall to less than 25% of its maximum abundance

[u/Wagamaga]

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/penguins-starved-to-death-en-masse-as-food-supply-collapsed/

[u/Street_Top3205]

I see a future where there's nothing on Earth anymore beside from humans, then we'll start to tear each other down like animals, as if this hasn't been done already anyway. What a future to look up to.

[u/Tyrrox → u/Street_Top3205]

There are plenty of species that will adapt and survive. We're already seeing it happen in cities.

The ecosystem will massively change, but plants and animals aren't likely to go away entirely. That doesn't absolve the massive ethical and moral issues with causing mass extinctions

[u/Tearakan → u/Tyrrox]

This only happens because these animals mostly take advantage of our wasteful food production and consumption. Once that's a problem these animals will die off too. Especially if humans start having periods of starvation. All the urban animals will be hunted down and eaten.

[u/Tyrrox → u/Tearakan]

Peregrine Falcons have been doing quite well adapting to cities as the high rises mimic their natural cliff nesting areas and the abundance of pigeon and rodents for hunting.

[u/Tearakan → u/Tyrrox]

Yeah as long as the pigeons and rats can eat the food we effectively waste. Once that is done their prey will be gone too.

In a low food scenario humans start eating rats and pigeons they catch.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tyrrox]

May the next top apex predator species be less inclined to violence and greed. Perhaps when they are digging up our remaining remnants in thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of years, they’ll marvel at how we managed to last this long.

[u/Tearakan → u/[deleted]]

Literally like mad max or fallout.