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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by puranjay on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:08AM (#24322062)
Just because they got the dates wrong doesn't mean that they got the trend wrong.
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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by tome on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:19AM (#24322114)
"Correctly predicted 10 of the last 0 eco-pocolypses" comes to mind.

[Adjust the figures as you see fit, but the latter won't come close to the former.]

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Re:Noam Chomsky: 'There's never been a moment in human histo... by puranjay on Sunday August 30, 2020 @04:12PM (#24325557)
That's a very narrow viewpoint. Several species and ecosystems are certainly going through eco-pocalypses even right now. Lots of very poor people have also gone through their own versions of eco-pocalypses
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