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Bill McKibben [search] writes in "
Civilization's last chance" [
ark] the best summing up of the known threats facing humanity now from climate change if major emission cuts are not pursued immediately. His latest
campaign efforts highlight the number 350, which he calls "the most important number on Earth" because of scientific understanding that if carbon emissions...
As incredible as it may sound, the
world's oceans are running out of fish [
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unsustainable industrial harvest of natural, wild fisheries [search] has led to much of humanity's swollen population eating ever smaller fish from inexorably shrinking populations. "Ninety years of industrial-scale exploitation of fish has... led to 'ecological meltdown'. Whole biological food chains...
Much ado has been made [
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climate skeptics [search] and charlatans to suggest climate change is not so important after all. I have three brief responses. Firstly...