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> we're looking at a mass extinction event for sure

Curiously, this ongoing mass extinction event has a name already -> Holocene Extinction[1].

> The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction[1] or Anthropocene extinction,[2] is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (11,700 years before AD 2000) mainly due to human activity.

My understanding is that the ongoing extinction event is not showing any signs of slowing down and is likely accelerating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction




Any hope of taking action to reverse it evaporated Tuesday night. The Paris climate agreement is now dead and any followup conferences are doomed for at least 2 years and almost certainly at least 4.




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