On this day, September 7, 1936, the last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
We are living through the sixth great extinction. And causing it. Hohum.
On this day the PPM was 310ish. Now it is 420ish- but see here for the latest.
Why this matters.
This is not a climate event, per se, but the same mentality that exterminated the tigers, and the Tasmanian Aborigines, is at play in the destruction of life on earth.
What happened next?
The extinctions have escalated.
And First Dog on the Moon had two excellent cartoons (the latter apologising for the former).