Not fascinating, but ignorant to argue evolution & dispersal will keep pace w/extinction & faunal homogenization is fine because 'winners'
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Ecosystem services, function and diversity relationships aside: who wants to live in a world with 50 species of “house sparrow” and no quetzal?
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@sapinker I love your optimism but Chris’ book concludes by stating we are going to lose 40% of all species. It will take hundreds of thousands of years to recover that diversity. -
From a purely selfish human point of view how many of those 40% of species may hold the next medical or technological breakthroughs?
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All of them, if only we could understand. From the conginive process of bees to the immune system of the horse shoe crab. Those especies have been billions of years developing solutions to adapt. And in nature's way, that means finding the boundaries of possibility.
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Yes, biodiversity is absolutely critical. But between 1970 and 2012, the global pop. of wild vertebrates literally declined by 58%. Extrapolate that into the future! Not much reason for hope...
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Hoping that "new" nature will be good after the status quo is being willfully destroyed in the pursuit of capital seems like a bit of a stretch for an optimistic case, especially when we remain pointed in the wrong direction, the US now more than ever.
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Also, don't forget that after the "heat death," the universe could slip into another energy state -- a true vacuum -- thus hitting the reset button. So, a "new" universe and, by this logic, a reason for optimism! :-)
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No. The Earth will be just fine. But human civilization may be wiped out if we don't change our ways. I think that would be TERRIBLE but I often wonder if we deserve it.

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I figure what shall wipe us out is someone who has decided we deserve it.
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Is IPBES, established by more than 100 governments, also a "red herring", then? "Worsening Worldwide Land Degradation Now ‘Critical’, Undermining Well-Being of 3.2 Billion People" https://bit.ly/2I6BdVF
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Yeah, we really kinda are.
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This sounds like George Carlin’s bit on environmentalism “the planet isn’t going anywhere, we are!”
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Unless we recreate the permian extinction by unleashing a runaway ocean heating methane- release further greenhouse warming cycle with our over consumption of fossil fuels. Why we even allow our species to take a chance with this baffles me.
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Does the book address why our society is so drawn to these atonement theologies where everyone is living in sin and like-minded behavior is the only solution?
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You would have to be mad to believe this, Steven. Why post things that are obviously untrue?
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Of course we are to worry. Without the ecology movement we would all be Republicans.
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Sounds suspiciously like putting lipstick on a pig.
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The rate of extinction is far higher than the rate at which new species evolve. That means rapid impoverishment of biological diversity, and ecological mass destruction.
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Aside from Thomas's sophomoric view that "plant and animal" populations are the primary criteria for evaluating ecosystem stability and function, the rapid loss of the planet's most biologically diverse habitats is, by Thomas's own admission, reason for concern.
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