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Re:Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally by marricks on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:03PM (#12098360)
Does the book go into animal agriculture's massive impact on species extinction? It seems a massive contributor so often over looked.

Just one fact, up to 91% of the deforestation of the Amazon since the 1970's has been for cattle![1]

[1] Livestock's Long Shadow http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm

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Re:Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally by lunchTime42 on Friday July 15, 2016 @03:37AM (#12099436)
inb4 some fundamentalist crafts a cattle plague
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Re:Biodiversity falls below ‘safe levels’ globally by lunchTime42 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:57AM (#12110177)
Nobody ever gets the David Brin references. To Real to be funny.
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