Extinction: just how bad is it and why should we care?
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‘Dad, the world is missing amazing animals. I wish extinction wasn’t forever.’
Despite my wife and I working as biologists, our five-year-old son came to make this statement independently.
He is highlighting what I and many others consider to be society’s biggest challenge, and arguably failure: the continuing loss of species from Earth. The massive impact we are having on the planet has firmly entrenched us in a period of our history commonly called the Anthropocene.
The environment was f...
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