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Dexter:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47203344


--- Quote ---The think-tank IPPR says human impacts have reached a critical stage and threaten to destabilise society and the global economy.

Scientists warn of a potentially deadly combination of factors.

These include climate change, mass loss of species, topsoil erosion, forest felling and acidifying oceans.
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--- Quote ---What issues are being under-played?

    -Topsoil is being lost 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished by natural processes ​

    -Since the mid-20th Century, 30% of the world's arable land has become unproductive due to erosion

    -95% of the Earth's land areas could become degraded by 2050

These matters are close to home for British politicians, the authors argue, with the average population sizes of the most threatened species in the UK having decreased by two-thirds since 1970.

The UK is described as one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.

Some 2.2 million tonnes of UK topsoil is eroded annually, and over 17% of arable land shows signs of erosion.

Nearly 85% of fertile peat topsoil in East Anglia has been lost since 1850, with the remainder at risk of being lost over next 30–60 years.

The IPPR says many scientists believe we have entered a new era of rapid environmental change.

The report warns: "We define this as the 'age of environmental breakdown' to better highlight the severity of the scale, pace and implications of environmental destabilisation resulting from aggregate human activity."
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roamer_1:

--- Quote from: Dexter on February 12, 2019, 02:31:51 pm ---https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47203344

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--- Quote from: the article ---[...] environmental destabilisation resulting from aggregate human activity

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Bunny-hugger bullcrap.

Dexter:

--- Quote from: roamer_1 on February 12, 2019, 02:38:06 pm ---Bunny-hugger bullcrap.

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Presently their argument is more convincing than yours.

roamer_1:

--- Quote from: Dexter on February 12, 2019, 02:40:03 pm ---Presently their argument is more convincing than yours.

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Yeah... And the sky has been falling for forty years, It's bullcrap alright

Restored:
Oh mercy mercy me. Things ain't what they used to be.

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