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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. That we are in the middle of an actual great extinction is a bit of an exaggeration.

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Sun Nov 17, 2024, 01:02 AM

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With all due respect to Ms Goodall, we are really not in a mass extinction.

In those, anywhere from 75% to 96% of all species went extinct. And during each of them there were vast changes in climate and the like, far vaster than what's going on now.

Here's a link that may prove useful: https://ourworldindata.org/mass-extinctions

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