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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62149)	12/15/2014 3:36:55 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) of 86356

" before Gaia sensibly brought people into the game, and especially me", to trigger the 6th Great Dying. Congratulations. Five times in the past 440 million years, life on earth has suffered a great dying – a mass extinction eliminating between half and 97 per cent of species. In the words of the palaeoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey, such events “restructure the biosphere”. Life takes millions of years to recover – and only does so by undergoing fundamental changes, such as mammals succeeding dinosaurs. Yesterday a report demonstrated how we are now, as Lord May, the former President of the Royal Society once put it, “on the breaking tip of a sixth great wave of extinction”. And while past ones have been blamed on intense warming or cooling of the climate, or asteroid impact, this is in danger of being the first to have been brought about by one of the very species ultimately at risk – ourselves. telegraph.co.uk

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