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Is There a Human Induced Climate Change?
There's been a lot of talk about whether we are living through the sixth great mass extinction. The scientific concensus is that, no, we aren't, not yet. We'd have to keep doing what we're doing, deforestation, habitat destruction and pollution, for it to even register as anywhere near five. I think there will be a great deal of disruption - but i don't think it'll be quite as bad as some people fear. But there are signs of hope: the industrial revolution took 70 million years to accumulate all this carbon dioxide. And when you look at it in terms of time spent trying to measure how much damage has been caused by human beings, very little can
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