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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.029 · Folger: 9.419
Di 23.07.2024 15:00
The sad truth is we will never know how many plant and animal species have been lost as a consequence of human actions.
The current species extinction rate is estimated between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates — the rate of species extinctions that would occur if humans were not around.
Here is one recent victim that might serve as an emblem, a poster child of all that's being lost forever...
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The demise of the Key Largo tree cactus is the first recorded case of sea level rise driving a local species to extinction in the United States. Its collapse was a blow to James Lange, a research botanist at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. “It was one of the things that made the Keys so special,” he said. “Just a big, bold, beautiful plant.”
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Just one among countless others we will never see again. 😢
FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/science/eulogy-for-a-cactus-florida-key-largo/
LEARN MORE -- https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass-extinction-and-what-can-we-do-about-it
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BioDiversity
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