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Re:Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction,... by mrnobody_67 on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:45PM (#19844233)
Read "Factfulness" (one of Bill Gate's Top 5 books)... or Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker (or just watch the 15 min TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting... )

In most places, in most ways, the world is getting massively better than it even was 20 or 30 years ago...

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Re:Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction,... by mrhappyunhappy on Monday May 06, 2019 @08:24PM (#19845282)
Sure, if you conveniently exclude the environment.
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