Species are disappearing rapidly
ecthompsonmd
March 5, 2011
It is Saturday so that means I’m talking about the climate. I’m going to work hard to stay on track. I think that this is important. So… From CP: A special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Science) — “Biological diversity in a changing world” — paints a bleak picture of what Homo ’sapiens’sapiens is doing to the other species on the planet. Prior to this year, I wrote about extinction only occasionally — since the direct impact of unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions on humanity seemed to me more than reason enough to act. But the mass extinctions
