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G_j

(40,367 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 02:30 PM Apr 2019

Sorry, I won't wish you a "Happy" Earth Day!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sir-david-attenborough-documentary-viewers-14431924

Sir David Attenborough documentary has viewers in TEARS over orangutan's plight

https://images.app.goo.gl/CTswrHKQep9A9Awn6

BBC's Climate Change: The Facts showed the heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and a bulldozer sent to destroy its forest home

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/21/earth-day-2019-climate-change-humans-global-warming-weather-rising-water/3507125002/

99.9999% chance humans are causing global warming, and other science-based facts on climate change for Earth Day

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/news/2014/02/140218-kolbert-book-extinction-climate-science-amazon-rain-forest-wilderness


The Sixth Extinction: A Conversation With Elizabeth Kolbert

Humanity's "most enduring legacy" will be our effect on the rest of life on Earth.
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Sorry, I won't wish you a "Happy" Earth Day! (Original Post) G_j Apr 2019 OP
We are a vile species malaise Apr 2019 #1
I fully realized during the Clinton administration that homo sapiens is an extinction species misanthrope Apr 2019 #2
I just wrote in another thread artislife Apr 2019 #3

misanthrope

(7,418 posts)
2. I fully realized during the Clinton administration that homo sapiens is an extinction species
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 03:44 PM
Apr 2019

Long before Elizabeth Kolbert wrote "The Sixth Extinction" because she was fed up with the public's denial of the obvious.

The information to reach these conclusions has never been hidden. All it took was a desire to keep up with news, for self-education and the ability to pay attention to the changes around us all. Humanity will scour the planet.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
3. I just wrote in another thread
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 04:55 PM
Apr 2019

that we are the only species intent on killing ourselves along with all the other species.

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