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Two things can be true at the same time:

1. significantly increased amount of 'life' on earth (as in: total kg of biomass, number of living specimens, total area with some amount of green stuff on it) due to warmer climate.

2. significantly reduced number of extant species on earth due to (geologically) fast changes in climate.

Edit: formating.

This seems to be a slightly shortened version of an earlier article by the same author. The swiss weekly magazine "Das Magazin" published a german translation of this longer version in 2019 [1]. It is an absolutely fascinating read.

Since the article from OP is relatively short on images, the following are links to more images from the german article, with captions translated into english. Warning: images contain depictions of the medical condition discussed in the article. YMMV, but i don't consider them 'gross' or NSFW.

Image 1: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/EzdPT4pM4HAAzsQiwi_L2d.jpg Caption de: Frau mit Kropf in Frienisberg, 1921. Caption en: Woman with goitre in Frienisberg, 1921.

Image 2: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/5PhByWEba4W8L0W1EnHXiE.jpg Caption de: Frau mit Kretinismus, 1928. (Das Wort hat heute einen herabsetzenden Beiklang, bezeichnet aber primär eine Erkrankung von grosser Grausamkeit.). Caption en: Woman with cretinism, 1928. (Today the word has a derogatory connotation, but primarily describes an illness of great cruelty).

Image 3: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/Bu0SX8WY4gK8jMZgebpyss.jpg Caption de: Sechs Frauen mit Kretinismus, ca. 1920. Caption en: Six women with cretinism, ca. 1920.

Image 4: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/8qBQEgsuqq-BMdsEAPN63U.jpg Caption de: Fand die Lösung gegen den Ur-Fluch der Schweiz: Heinrich Hunziker aus Adliswil ZH, gezeichnet von Marianne Zumbrunn 1977. Caption en: Found the solution to Switzerland's original curse: Heinrich Hunziker from Adliswil ZH, drawn by Marianne Zumbrunn in 1977.

Image 5: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/7tdlChuPq-3AIeFiSvh5U1.jpg Caption de: Experimente mit der Schneeschaufel: der Walliser Landarzt Otto Bayard, 1937. Caption en: Experiments with the snow shovel: the Valais country doctor Otto Bayard, 1937.

Image 6: https://cdn.unitycms.io/images/5JGFFaXN48BA4xOsHXf0Zu.jpg Caption de: Sonnengebräunter Naturbursche: der Herisauer Allgemeinpraktiker und spätere Chefarzt Hans Eggenberger, undatiert. Caption en: Sun-tanned outdoorsman: the Herisau general practitioner and later chief physician Hans Eggenberger, undated.

[1] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wie-drei-heldenhafte-aerzte-die... or https://archive.is/rHzSV

edit: formatting