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Title: 'Authoritative propaganda': Skeptics blast U.N. warning of mass species extinction
Post by: rangerrebew on July 04, 2019, 02:48:17 pm

 

'Authoritative propaganda': Skeptics blast U.N. warning of mass species extinction
 
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 22, 2019

A widely touted United Nations report predicting mass species extinction took a beating Wednesday at a House subcommittee hearing, with Republican-called witnesses blasting the claims as “highly exaggerated” and “authoritative propaganda.”

The executive summary released May 6 by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services concluded that “transformative change” was needed to save as many as 1 million species at risk of extinction.

“The evidence is unequivocal. Biodiversity, which is important in its own right and essential for human well-being, is being destroyed by human activities at a rate unprecedented in human history,” Robert Watson, former chairman of IPBES, told the Natural Resources subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/22/un-mass-species-extinction-warning-blasted-skeptic/ (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/22/un-mass-species-extinction-warning-blasted-skeptic/)