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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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4. And it's already well underway.

Reply to NickB79 (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 07:15 AM

Sep 2014

None of this mealy-mouthed "almost" or "perhaps" or "soon". It's been underway for over a century, but we've been too fixated on human issues like economics and politics to even notice, let alone realize what it means.

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Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970 - WWF [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2014 OP

And guess what populations rose? GliderGuider Sep 2014 #1

That is a literally incredible statistic ... Nihil Sep 2014 #2

We're watching a mass extinction event unfold before our eyes NickB79 Sep 2014 #3

And it's already well underway. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #4

Right. I'd say we're not watching it before our eyes, because we don't see it The2ndWheel Sep 2014 #5