The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction @SabineHossenfelder
The Truth about Human-Caused Mass Extinction  @SabineHossenfelder
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You’ve probably heard that human industrialization is actually a mass extinction event that’s killed off hundreds of thousands of different animal species, I certainly did. But is that actually true? Recently, a group of ecologists published a paper comparing human-related extinctions to mass extinction events of the past. Let’s take a look at the numbers.

Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.70476

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