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‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
(www.theguardian.com)
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Exactly - current extinction rates are estimated to be 100-1000 times higher than the natural backround rate, which is why many ecologists started calling this the "Holocene extinction" decades ago.