How soon, indeed, before the Earth's biological treasures are trashed, in what will be the sixth great mass extinction event?
"We are not in a mass extinction event yet, and it's very important to emphasise that, because it means we can still make changes," said Williams.
As we tremble with anticipation at the prospect of finding a single microbe on another planet, under our feet we're wilfully executing a mass extinction event.
It's simply an illustration of the far future evolutionary possibilities if the Earth (as currently seems likely) undergoes a mass extinction event.
That we are living through the planet's sixth great (or not so great) mass extinction event was reinforced again last month.
The changes to the Earth's biology do, therefore, include a rapidly developing mass extinction event, as charted by Gerardo Caballos and his colleagues.
The last time the Earth suffered such a mass extinction event was when an asteroid slammed into it, killing off all the non-avian dinosaurs.
"We're in a very fraught time," he continued, warning the 8,000 international delegates: "There will be a mass extinction event.
Some scientists believe that more than half of all species could disappear in the next 100 years, which would rank as only the sixth mass extinction event in Earth history.
Biological Diversity say we are currently in the middle of the planet's sixth mass extinction event: Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural "background" rate of about one to five species per year.
It should be an unlistenable mess, but Hazel's never-less-than-genius guitar and Fulwood's brilliantly pulverising breakbeats ensure that Wars of Armageddon is electrifying until its final mass extinction event.
