Video: Humans Are Driving the Next Mass Extinction

“Species are like a house of cards, you can’t just sort of take one card out of the deck and not expect the deck to crumble,” said Dr. Michael Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, in this reality-driven video by Racing Extinction.

As the video above clearly shows, human activity is directly linked to mass extinction of the world’s most endangered species.

Watch as renowned film director and co-founder of Oceanic Preservation Society, Louie Psihoyos, explains how “there’s this incredible web where we’re all connected, and when we start to lose these linchpin species, the environment starts to fail.”