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THE EXTINCTION CRISIS
Environment  (tags: extinction, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, forests, ecosystems, CO2emissions, climate-change, conservation, wildlife, world, pollution, suffering, globalwarming, environment, endangered )

Suzybell
- 124 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
It's frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals -- the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss o
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B. M. (90)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 8:49 pm
And, this time around it is all mans' fault!!

Plant trees for life........
 

Ralph Sutton (49)
Thursday August 13, 2009, 9:01 pm
I have to disagree with the conclusion that we are the cause of the current extinction cycle due to man made climate change. Mother Nature is causing the current climate changes with increased volcanic activity. I will agree that we may be playing a roll in the extinctions by reducing habitat and miss using our world's resources. Recent findings are revealing that climate change is what did the dinosaurs in not the meteor. There are no dinosaur bones in the layer of soil containing the evidence of the meteor strike; all of the dinosaur bones are found in the layers below that. The dinosaurs were already gone.
 

Rhonda Maness (466)
Friday August 14, 2009, 11:54 am
Thanks Suzybell
 

Raffi Sabra Mu is Gone (339)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 2:08 am
Thanks Suzybell.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (266)
Saturday August 15, 2009, 10:59 pm
Utterly sad and true... the reality of this has not sunk into the heads of the majority of people, and it is only when it is toooooooooo late that they may realise that there is a problem
 
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