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How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.
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Extinctions are part of the evolutionary process. Preventing them might be as damaging as causing them. We let our fantasies and wish-dreams about nature lead us away from reality.