Extinction is death on steroids. When an individual dies, its
offspring or the offspring of others like it carry on the line.
When a species goes extinct it means that the line is ended, forever.
Earth has seen at least five mass extinctions. In the past, these were
due to natural forces: volcanoes; tectonic shifts of giant plates; or
huge asteroids exploding with the force of a billion H-bombs.
But now we are in the throes of a sixth mass extinction. It is one
that we have caused with our relentless destruction of the many
beautiful habitats that have evolved; destroyed so Scrooge McDuck’s
money pile could grow a few feet higher.
We are at a terrible turning point; experts say that we have mere
months to engineer a recovery strategy that does not involve returning
to pre-pandemic levels of fossil fuel pollution.
We must change or die. And if we we don’t then we will be bringing
down the rest of Earth with us.
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