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- W4312705440 abstract "Extract Cosmologist Brian Swimme relates a personal story that captures the conundrum of life’s crisis in our time. After hearing the announcement of a meeting of leading life scientists that humanity’s impact is heading the biosphere toward a mass extinction, he went to bed that night deeply disturbed. First thing in the morning, he reached for the New York Times to see how this earth-shattering news was reported in the media. Page after page there was nothing. Finally, on page 26 he found a terse report of the announcement. Swimme’s shock at the media’s under whelming reception was spot on: The New York Times found twenty-five pages of more important reporting than the news of a human-driven mass extinction on the horizon. The Earth has indeed come upon hard times. With an estimated extinction rate one thousand times higher than the natural rate of extinction, a mass extinction event looms. Species and subspecies are disappearing, most before we get to meet them. Huge declines in populations of wild animals and plants, as well as the destruction of wholesale ecologies, are occurring across the board. Phenomena of biological abundance, like animal migrations and wildlife spectacles, are disappearing. Two recent findings speak volumes. In the last fifty years, more than half the Earth’s wild animals disappeared. In the last forty years, 10 percent of Earth’s already contracted wilderness was destroyed. Without a profound shift in humanity’s historical course, the biosphere will soon become completely dominated by human beings, domestic species, built structures, industrial infrastructures, and a cadre of globally recurring species able to survive amidst such conditions." @default.
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- W4312705440 date "2019-01-01" @default.
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- W4312705440 title "1. Unraveling Earth’s Biodiversity" @default.
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