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We are in the midst of the sixth known mass extinction of life on earth. Lions, Tigers, Polar Bears, River Dolphins, Right Whales, the Great Apes...probably all gone in our lifetime. It's the greatest die off since an asteroid impact wiped out most things living in the Americas 65 million years ago. Forests are succumbing to climate change and invasion by opportunistic parasites, then burning, changing our familiar landscapes from forests to scrubland. Our lifestyle priorities are mandating more energy production and consequently more habitat destruction with every year setting a new record for carbon dioxide emission. This places even greater pressure on flora and fauna to evolve or perish. Do we really want to exterminate most wildlife in favor of domestic and pet breeds? Like these endangered species, we too will find ourselves adrift in a very unsettled and unpredictable environment. The people of The Carteret Islands, The Maldives, Tuvalu, Samoa, Senegal, Kiribati and New Orleans know that feeling. It's like...welcome to the future! For more info: 2011's Weather Most Extreme Yet, But the GOP Still in Climate Change Denial, Advertising Makes Us 'More Individualistic' And Less Concerned About The Planet, Says Report, More and More Refugees Flee the Devastation of Climate Change, IPCC Special Report:
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, Global Carbon Dioxide Output Soars In 2010 , Climate Change Will Boost Disasters: UN report , Panel Says Wild Weather To Worsen, Billion Dollar U.S. Weather/Climate Disasters, Worse Than We Thought: Evidence Builds That Scientists Underplay Climate Impacts, How Much Do Americans Really Know About Democracy? Turns Out We Could Learn a Few Things From Nature, The American `Allergy' to Global Warming: Why? , USA 2011: Most Catastrophic Weather Year On Record!, Why the Tar Sands Pipeline Will Be Game Over for Our Planet, Expanding Desert, Falling Water Tables, and Toxic Pollutants Are Driving People From Their Homes, We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction: Goodbye Fish and a Whole Lot More, Increased Flood Risk Linked to Global Warming, Thousands Of Gas Leaks Under Boston And San Francisco, Is Global Warming Linked to Severe Weather?, Warming Oceans Cause Largest Movement Of Marine Species In Two Million Years, Global Warming Lull Down to China's Coal Growth , Experts Warn Epic Weather Ravaging US Could Worsen, Nature Isn't A Commodity That Should Be Bought, Sold and Traded, Aflockalypse, Why We Should Be Concerned About Huge Bird and fish Die-Offs, Twenty Percent of Plant Life Facing Extinction, The Next Great Mass Extinction , Four More Ocean Garbage Patches Discovered, Area larger Than Continental US, 25% of Flowering Species Could Go Extinct, Gulf Disaster Media Censorship Continues, Why Cap and Trade Won't Work, Why Cap and Trade Won't Work #2, The Link Between BP, Geoengineering, Genetically Modified Crops and the US, Government Orchestrated Media Blackout of Gulf Disaster, Public Beaches Closed to Press, How Oil Spills Affect the Food Chain, Media Coverage of Gulf Disaster Obstructed by BP, Can Environmental Criminals Ever Be Made to Pay, Poisoned Shipments: Criminal Waste Disposal, Screwing the Environment Just Like We Screwed the Economy, Yale e360 Environmental News, Don't Take My Word For It, Check the Science, 8 Things We Can Kiss Goodbye, The Sixth Extinction, The State of World Population 2009 UN Report, Acknowledging the Value of Nature and Profiting from it, Going Green Means Having Fewer Kids, Energy Xtremism, Livestock and Climate Change, Agriculture's long Shadow, The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West, How Climate Change is Changing Our National Parks, The Future Will Be Crowded, New Film "Earth Days", Don't Miss It!, Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth, Consumerism is Eating the Future, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Most Lakes in State Polluted, Air Pollution Endangers 6 in 10, Breeding Ourselves to Extinction and Is Recovery Even Possible?
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