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Re:Animals We Ate into Extinction by RachelF on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:21AM (#15497649)
Humans did the same thing, causing a mass extinction of around half the large mammals in Australia and many other species when they reached the continent around 40,000 years ago. Not only did we hunt large animals, but we burned the forests regularly, driving more to the brink.

The same thing happened around 1000 years ago when we reached New Zealand and Madagascar.

Most of the damage of the Anthropocene may already have been done.

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Re:Animals We Ate into Extinction by chicago_wade on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:13AM (#15497992)
> Most of the damage of the Anthropocene may already have been done.

Unless global warming gets sufficiently bad, in which case that will be the worst damage.

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