Three plant species have gone extinct on Earth every year since 1900. The alarming extinction rate is very likely an *underestimate* of the actual number of plant species that are extinct or critically endangered.https://www.livescience.com/65696-the-plants-are-dying.html …
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Plant extinction is bad news for all species, said Dr Eimear Nic Lughadha. Plant extinctions can lead to a whole cascade of extinctions in other organisms that rely on them, for instance insects that use plants for food and for laying their eggs.https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48584515 …
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'With habitat loss, climate change and human exploitation, newly-described plants could very well have higher rates of extinction, and some could even disappear before we know they exist.'https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-are-going-extinct-at-least-500-times-faster-than-they-would-if-humans-weren-t-around …
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'They provide the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat, as well as making up the backbone of the world’s ecosystems – so plant extinction is bad news for all species'.https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/plants-extinction-rate-life-earth-climate-kew-gardens-science-a8953831.html …
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Absolute extinction only tells part of the story of what’s happening to nature right now. There’s a trove of plant species that are functionally extinct, meaning only a few hundred specimens remain, putting the species as a whole on course for annihilation.https://earther.gizmodo.com/we-ve-driven-nearly-600-plant-species-to-extinction-al-1835411746 …
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Scientists have made it pretty clear: 'overconsumption is the root cause of the destruction of nature, leading to rainforests being clearcut and rising carbon emissions'. Overconsumption by a wealthy minority, in an economic system based on overconsumption by a wealthy minority.
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“The background extinction-rate” is just such a game of ‘Buzzword Bingo!’ and so too such a slurry of statistics of the third kind.
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