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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 29 Dec 2017

    We Aren’t Destroying the Earth (review of Chris Thomas’s fascinating Inheritors of the Earth).https://nyti.ms/2EaHoXt 

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      2. Christopher Witt‏ @MSBbirds 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not fascinating, but ignorant to argue evolution & dispersal will keep pace w/extinction & faunal homogenization is fine because 'winners'

        1 reply 1 retweet 33 likes
      3. Keith Barker‏ @fkbarker 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @MSBbirds @sapinker

        Ecosystem services, function and diversity relationships aside: who wants to live in a world with 50 species of “house sparrow” and no quetzal?

        0 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
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      2. James Adler‏ @LarryAdler77 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        @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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
      3. James Adler‏ @LarryAdler77 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @LarryAdler77 @sapinker

        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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      4. Gabriel Messias Ruiz‏ @MessiasRuiz 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @LarryAdler77 @sapinker

        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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      1. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      2. spooky Rocco  💀 👽 💀‏ @ROCCODANGER 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      3. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @ROCCODANGER @sapinker

        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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      2. Speculawyer  🇳🇴-American‏ @speculawyer 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      3. Nathan Bresnahan‏ @n_bresnahan 29 Dec 2017
        Replying to @speculawyer @sapinker

        I figure what shall wipe us out is someone who has decided we deserve it.

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      1. Vegard Heggem‏ @vedgy Mar 27
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. Darwin Woodka‏ @darwinwoodka Jan 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yeah, we really kinda are.

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      1. Fernando García‏ @fgarciacahue 31 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        This sounds like George Carlin’s bit on environmentalism “the planet isn’t going anywhere, we are!”

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      1. William Dickens‏ @wtdickens 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. Paul Willenberg‏ @pwillen1 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. Peter Hodges‏ @punter05 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        You would have to be mad to believe this, Steven. Why post things that are obviously untrue?

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      1. Buddha'sGhost‏ @next150years 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Of course we are to worry. Without the ecology movement we would all be Republicans.

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      1. Christian Breiding‏ @DuckLoogie 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Sounds suspiciously like putting lipstick on a pig.

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      1. Howard Torf‏ @HowardTorf 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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      1. mr.goodmemes‏ @MrGoodMemes 30 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        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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