Mass extinctions linked to climate change are already underway
source: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/2011/08/2011-0829-climate-change-extin...
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New evidence confirms what scientists have long suspected: that climate change is already having major effects on many of the world's species.
Researchers report for the first time that the documented species responses – migration to a higher or cooler climate or changes in population – suggest actual extinction risks linked to climate change are almost double those that were predicted. Just as grim are future outlooks – almost one-third of species will be threatened by 2100.
Temperature, ocean acidity and other climate-related changes can set the stage for widespread extinctions by adding even more pressure to ecosystems already stressed by habitat loss, pollution, disease and other human-related impacts.
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We are currently witnessing a mass extinction event, the sixth of such thought to have occurred in the Earth’s history. Mass extinctions were responsible for the demise of marine organisms more than 400 million years ago and the fall of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago – an event which led to the ascent of modern-day mammals.
The causes of these historical extinctions can only be guessed at based on geological records. But, the result then – as now – is a sharp reduction in global diversity of plant and animal species.
The current round of mass extinctions may be triggered by a combination of human-related environmental and ecosystem impacts, experts contend. In general, habitat loss, over harvesting, pollution and invasive species can combine with disease, parasites and other health problems to contribute to decreasing populations.
In addition, climate change is surfacing as a main threat to global biodiversity. The added stress of climate-related changes in temperature, rainfall, sea level or ocean chemistry put many plant and animal species at more risk. Especially hard hit are species that are not able to migrate to areas better suited to their needs.
While there is much debate on the cause of climate change, most scientists agree that the earth’s climate is changing at an accelerated pace. Ecologists have attempted to predict how temperature, ocean acidity or other climate-related changes might affect populations of different species or possibly cause extinctions.
Typically, scientists rely on models to predict the types and rates of extinctions. A new, growing body of studies now documents actual impacts and responses in a variety of species. These new studies make it possible to compare the theoretical with actual, observed responses.
No one knows for sure how many species live on Earth. More than one and a half million species are identified but tens – if not hundreds – of millions of species are estimated to live on the globe.
Biodiversity - the number of plants and animals in the world and their genetic variety – is important for a number of reasons. An organism-rich world provides direct benefits to humans. Many known and many yet-to-be-discovered resources can lead to the development of needed food, energy and medicines. Biodiversity also protects vital ecosystems that contribute to clean water and air against environmental damage from pollution and extreme weather.
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And not to get all biblical, but those facts would support the fact that animals are here to befriend us. And would you kill and eat your friend? No , of course not. And we absolutely DO know, what is the cause of global warming, duh! Greenhouse gasses! Its been proven already, many times over now, people! Why are we still playing stupid? Its truly ridiculous. We know that at least 51% of all greenhouse gasses come from animal agriculture, either directly, or as a by-product of it. We know that as an ABSOLUTE fact now, that global warming is a direct result, of human activities. Why are we listening to skeptics, and not science experts in their field? The skeptics are just people that have no real experience, and love to have intellectual wars thru debate. Come on people, i thought we were suppose to be a logical species, where is it being used. It has been publicly announced and documented, that the only way fast enough, to thwart global warming, is to adopt a vegetarian diet, preferably a vegan diet. It says it in the bible : "thou shalt not kill, and every blood is accounted for etc." it doesn't say humans. And how about the greatest mind of our times, Albert Einstein : he said " Nothing would benefit mankind more, than the adoption to a vegetarian diet". Then we see that it takes between 10-25 or my times, the earths resources, to produce meat n dairy products , which by the way, the excrement in which, is polluting our air, earth, and water. And, that nearly 90% of our rainforests are being cut down to either grow or feed livestock, For the sake of meat. Is it truly that important? A peice of meat? Vegans are very healthy, we also eat very well, i should know, i am a vegan. I never get sick. Anyway, i hope the peices are starting to come together for you, we dont have much time left for stupidity an ignorance. The best of luck to you all. Please do some deep sincere research, in search of the real truth. As you sow, so shall you reap, a simple science, sow an apple tree, get an apple, sow death and destruction, get death and destruction. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Eh... i"ll leave you here, and with a link you can check out for the real facts, if the facts are actually what you seek, then i triple dare you, hahaha!! it's :http://earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm and look for an article entitled "A New Global Warming strategy" Its a very eye opening article, do check it out. And good luck fellow earthlings. =)
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Allison_Joyal
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What about our extinction? Scientific evidence is piling up that Comet Elenin is a spaceship. It appears to be inside a tetrahedron-shaped forcefield. It's doing the swing-loop maneuver around the Sun to bring it screaming back in front of Earth's orbital path and there can be no escape.
We're about to meet God. And look at what we've done to his planet we're toast now buddy-ro. The forcefield must be protecting the craft from the sun's heat.
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Gravity_Man:
By last night the word on Elenin being a spacecraft coming to bring us new technology well, it may have bit the dust. Word is it was observed beginning to possibly break apart.
Continue with the extinction plan, going great everybody! LET'S NOT GO MESSING UP OUR OWN EXTINCTION.
WE'D NEVER LIVE IT DOWN. Our place is beside the DNA-altered fish and frogs. No one can steal our place on the shelf NO ONE. Waterloo calls. We shall not desert our destiny.
Walk on, into the future, carrying the banner of freedom, waving the flag of capitalists. BTW, a Capitalist is really an Economic Cannibal System.
That's why it's all spiralling down, just ahead the Grave Zone.
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Gravity_Man:
The only thing we can control is our own actions. So if we should focus on anything, we should focus on what we're doing that can alleviate global warming. And the greatest way we can reduce our greenhouse gasses is by going vegetarian, optimally vegan. As has been calculated to be the quickest, cheapest, and easiest way the individual can make a difference in their ecological footprint and reduce greenhouse gasses. This is because over 51% of greenhouse gasses come from animal agriculture, 90% of the rainforests are being cut down for the sake of raising animals for meat, and if this land in turn was used to grow vegetation that would cut carbon by 40%. Not to mention the fact, that the gasses produced by the livestock industry are proven to be 25-4500 times more warming than C02, and C02 leaves the atmosphere much more slowly, like 100 years, or more slowly. The fastest result will be experienced by going vegetarian/vegan. heres a link you can check out, i DARE.... the real truth seeker to check it out. its http://earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm its vital to our survival that people know the truth, so, please spread the word. thanks =)
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Allison_Joyal:
I disagree with your facts and I disagree with your statements regarding all people can be a vegan/vegetarian. Many people have some degree or other of muscle-wasting diseases and eating meat prevents them from flat out dying. I personally eat very little meat but I have had many illnesses in my life and had I listened to people like yourself I doubt I would still be alive.
I recently discovered that meat provides humans with something called NADH and I gather it is extremely important and cannot come from any other source. However, I have not researched that. I have noticed NADH being sold on health supplement websites I frequent. I have a reduced number of chewing teeth so of late I've been eating more Peanut Butter and trying to convince my 100% thyroid-less body to deal with less meat.
Your facts say the animals are producing the greenhouse gases but I have to disagree with whoever decided that. One single 140 horsepower car engine is cranking out the pollutions of a 140 horse stampede. I believe the combustion engine is the main offender, in all its many forms, and if they were eliminated people could still have the meat their body AND BRAIN needs.
I recently discovered a very plausible way to convert all combustion engines over to being ELECTRICALLY-FIRED STEAM ENGINES that will generate zero greeenhouse gases. Spark plugs are replaced with water injection plugs and the injector plugs are also heater elements, much like used in home water heaters, so that the water can be sprayed into the cylinder and FLASHED INTO A STEAM CLOUD.
My engines are not an easy sell because people equate energy with liquid sticks being burned, a tiny level above CAVEMEN, but convincing sick people needing the nutrients from meat is an even tougher sell. Your best bet would be to come down off the Purist Horse.
Converting combustion engines over to exploding non-combusting steam could be done a great deal faster => http://current.com/green/93390416_fuel-pumps-whatre-those-daddy-child-we-stopped...
Right now the American diet is causing both Men & Women to have a greatly-increased estrogen level and that is causing them both to lose muscle, essentially we are all contracting muscle-wasting diseases. Women are having sagging spines in their 30's and men are no longer the men they used to be. Being Vegan might've worked 50 years ago but not now. I can't see it. Women need a certain amount of testosterone and right now even the men don't have it.
And that isn't even mentioning the widespread thyroid disease which is causing a population-wide degradation of health and cellular energy levels, WHICH MAKES MEAT EVEN MORE NECESSARY. I've been using vegetable sources olive oil, wheat germ oil and coconut oil to get more protein but one hamburger blows them all away. Without any thyroid hormones my body just doesn't seem able to make the conversions.
My conclusion is your mission will fail, has to. Humankind today is the weakest it has ever been. We are the dregs of all time. I expect soon mankind will be thinned out at Armageddon and one promise Jesus made is found at Matthew 19 verse 28 where he said a "regeneration" or "re-Creation" event will happen soon after Armageddon the survivors will be quickly restored to the health enjoyed by Adam & Eve. THAT WILL BE WHEN WE WILL BE HEALTHY ENOUGH TO DO AS YOU SUGGEST.
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Allison_Joyal:
I admire you for reaching the same conclusion as the Bible, ahead of time.
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Gravity_Man:
the estrogen has to be coming from all of the estrogen hormones we feed the dairy cows. and thyroid problems happen when people don't stimulat their thyroid fom lack of exercise and lack of fruits in their diets. If you recall from the bible noone experience suffering in the garden of eden and that it was gods highest will that," thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven." well seeing as noone suffered then when it was perfect then it would be perfect and gods wish that we don't destroy his creature any more. when you love someone you want them to be happy, the greatest law is the law of love, jesus told one of his disciples. now since god gave the animals the ability to experience happiness, and god loved all his creatures, he must've wanted them to be happy. I see what the bible says, we are made in the image of god, therefore we are gods' reflection, and we should reflect the qualities of god. The qualities of god are , love, peace, beauty, goodness. But god gave us free will, so its up to us to choose to embody these qualities. Is it more beautiful to pick a fragrant colorful fruit from a tree, or cut the head off a cow, chicken, or pig, which is accompanied by the screams of the animal, and foul odors? Is it more loving to pick fruits n veggies, or to take the life, of a sweet, innocent, and harmless, animal? Is it more peaceful to grow a garden ad reap its gifts, or to kill an animal who has done us no harm. A child would answer these questions easily and quickly. But not us who have a veil that protects the things we cling to. In the bible it is clearly stated numerous times that ye become simple and meek like a child and you would enter the kingdom of heaven, the children know the truth. Jesus was the child born of curds and honey, he was born in a manger amongst many animals and was always depicted being merciful and gentle with them. All the peices fit if you have all the right peices. There was a man named dr. gerson and he created the gerson therapy, which he cured many patients of chronic diseases with. he is not alive today but his daughter lives on and she and others that use the therapy still cure many people of chronic diseases today, including thyroid problems with a vegetarian diet. there are also health clinics all over the globe that treat patients with diet changes, vegetarian and vegan diet changes. you can research to find them. Plus when people first go vegan or vegetarian, their bodies are getting rid of many toxins and healing, so they may encounter a short period of discomfort, but this is only the body recovering. They should be fine in a short while. any ways everyone beleives what they want but a real truth seeker WILL find it, you may have to put aside opinions and desires u ill find it. My heart knows its wrong to kill. Especially when i can go to a grocery store for many things that are plant based. i'll end here i have to go meditate. take care, god bless, good luck.
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Allison_Joyal:
Very much enjoyed the video. My computer sound was messed up by the AVG Antivirus and makes listening a real CHORE, all choppy. So I pretty much don't listen to anymore videos. But this one was worth it.
I presently take a number of well-formulated nutrition powders, Oxy-Nectar, spirulina, Cayenne & Chickweed, apple pectin powder, and a protein powder made from grass-grazed beef here in Virginia. In 18 months I've lost close to 30 pounds, but I rebounded up once that really set me back time-wise.
Thanks for sharing the information. I was raised back when "processed foods" had just begun. Bird'seye Foods had just figured out jhow to freeze-dry vegetables, but their pot pies really packed on much weight. I weighed 160 pounds by the 3rd Grade, but a big part of that wasn't being inactive. I would play outside to the point of physical exhaustion. We would throw a football by street light a tough trick.
My thyroid gland was actually inherited from the wrong parent so what I essentially had was an incompatible organ transplant that poisoned every cell in my body all my life. Needless to say my Immune System didn't function much. Many organs functioned less than they should have.
If my Mom and Dad hadn't cooked up such proper meals I surely wouldn't be alive today. They made pinto beans, spaghetti & meatballs and many nutritious meals before the food processing companies took over. We had the little McDonald's open up before they were called McDonald's but they were smart enough to open up very close to elementary and junior high schools...
I recently discovered a great product called Bulasterone and it #1 boosts testosterone and #2 PREVENTS TESTOSTERONE FROM BREAKING DOWN INTO ESTROGEN plus #3 adding Guggelsterones to it the two combine into a synergistic combo that CONVERTS LAZY T-4 INTO ACTIVE T-3. Of course since I have very little if any it's beyond me why it helps me so much but for anyone who does have a functioning thyroid gland I believe the health boost would be AWESOME.
A 2nd product I came across is also very new and it actually does work, called SCORCH. It has some terrific ingredints that suppress appetite, boost morale (serotonin), and is really a magnificent product. Anything that worls for me is magnificent given I skirt just above hypothermia (happens @95 degrees). My usual body temperature runs 96.3, and at that cold of a temperature HUMAN BODYFAT BECOMES A SEMI-SOLID IMPOSSIBLE TO DIET OFF WITH THERMOGENICS.
It is a damnable situation when your own body is in a semi-hibernative state, your fat hard as butter in the dairy food refrigerated section. When fat goes Cold like that and smei-hardens down it squeezed blood vessels tight so that thermogenic products do not get in... so these products have helped me lose 6 lbs. in the last 10-12 days. I am somewhere between Anorexia and Starvation.
At 60 yeaers of age (almost) even a normal person's thyroid is losing function, body temperature decreasing. I'm significantly under that bus, and have been all my life having been born into such a damnable weight gain situation. The fact that I am now losing weight is quite a miracle.
I noticed several weeks ago my heart distress suddenly STOPPED ONE NIGHT and I credit the SCORCH for doing that. This afternoon I noticed my pusle seemed slower than usual so I checked it and to my surpise (and delight) it was under 50 beats per minute => another miracle, because my blood pressure ran 245/140+ for three years straight up til the Fall of 2007.
I was diagnosed to have both arteriosclerotic disease and atherosclerotic disease, have had gout, 3 anginas in january 2008 that got progressively worse. The last one rocked me back on my heels, and at 270 lbs it takes one heckuva chest blow to rock me back. And then in March I had a major heart infarction that tickled my heart so much I had to bust out laughing at it, felt like a bolt of electric shock went from one side to the other side of my heart. FELT GOOD ACTUALLY, A SYSTEM RESET.
Thing about heart attacks and such you never want to Panic because panic causes an instant adrenalin dump that wastes what O2 (oxygen) remains in heart muscle tissue. Never panic at a heart attack. Press oxygen into your cheeks immediately and the O2 molecules goes directly into tongue and cheek capillaries a very fast shot of oxygen enters the heart. HAHAHAHA Like how ya blow up a balloon, the increased air pressure in the mouth pushes exhaled air into the cells. Exhaled air actually contains much unabsorbed oxygen expelled from the lungs!!!
I also beat a few awesome cancers along the way w/out any doctor or hospitals around to help. In fact, one turned me away and sent me home to die, back in 2002. By the Grace of God I not only survived their death-dealing blow I proved hospitals and doctors are Relics. God's Grace and Help are powerful allies to have on your side wanting you to remain alive. So I just keep trucking on along inventing more engines for people to ignore!!!
HAHAHAHA SEE YA. Wodorow Riley
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Gravity_Man:
I'm sorry, but attitude is everything, if we don't even have a positive attitude, then it will be hard to acheive anything. anyhow I beleive we will make it. I see so many good people, and how can we perish when there are so many good people on this planet? Lord knows one thing, i will keep trying and keep faith, and in the off chance we don't make it, at least i know i tried and had faith. p.s. you know it takes 100 years or more for C02 to leave the atmosphere right? Thats the least. k just checking. cuz methane and nitrous oxide and black carbon all come from animal agriculture and they leave the atmosphere very quickly. like, most likely less than a year, or at the most 2years. and they are lots more warming than C02, 25-4500 times more. so... if we get rid of that, we'd actually see results in this lifetime. ok, goodluck, goodnight.
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Allison_Joyal:
I have very much enjoyed your statements of Faith! There are more than a few people who were exposed to radioactive test fallout from the 1940's time period who likely have my "rare" thyroid issue, receiving it from the wrong parent. In a case like that your blanket "preaching" of no meat could be deadly.
In 1989 I was in a tough accident hit from above & behind by a 1,000 pound bale that bounced me 3 times + propelled my heavy male torso forward, then when it hit behind my knees pile-drived my kneecaps into the asphalt meanwhile my torso flying outward was yanked down and ribs and all internal organs slammed hard into the ground, at a very high rate of speed.
After that was when a doctor discovered my thyroid poisoning, from an incompatible thyroid obtained at conception. So he advised a nuclear radiation and I sat in a chir like David Banner (the Hulk) while they aimed the beam into my thyroid and destroyed most of it. So you see there's nothing a "Good Diet" can do to make a non-existent thyroid change back into being a working thyroid as you suggest.
I strongly advise your organization to include as many medical disclaimers in their literatuure and website as they possibly can before someone with my health issues gets killed by your advice.
The animals will for the time being suffer along with all us humans because we live in the Bible's "last Days of this system of things", aka the "End Times", so nobody right now NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST IS FARING VERY WELL. Soon Armageddon will change all these despicable situations, for those smart enough to cling to their Maker and His son.
You cannot bring God's New System. No one can. It requires a "Kingdom of the Heavens" to do that. You are a very nice and well-intentioned person. Ithas been great conversing with you today. Add John 17 v 3 to your reading list and talk to some JW's (Jehovah's Witnesses) soon as you possibly can and be in that New System. You do not have the luxury of foot dragging time remaining.
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Allison_Joyal:
True, we could do a lot, so true, but since that is true WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE IT ALREADY? I will tell you something you've never heard before. You recall how when Jesus was on Earth he chose apostles, right? Okay, well there was a war in heaven recounted in Revelation Chapter 12, and Satan and other bad angels were thrown down here.
MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THIS. Satan copied Jesus and also chose apostles. He gave them great abilities also, like the apostles had. Satan's "apostles" now make up the core of the Anti-Christ. You see my new friend we are not up against ordinary mortals. If you and your group of "we can do it" believers were up against ordinary men yes, you probably could accomplish much.
YOU AREN'T. YOU'RE OUTCLASSED AND OUTGUNNED. Either Jesus saves us or what you and I live in now will continue as long as they will it to continue.
Fortunately for you you live in the specific time when Jesus is about to act. Find a Kingdom hall of Jehovah's Witnesses as soon as your feet can get there.
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Gravity_Man:
well i can see why you call yourself gavity man. yes gods grace i can agree is very important. You should try the gerson therapy. it is extensive, but for someone who has been through as much as you have, it might be worth it to give it a try. there are books and sites i beleive. best of luck. god bless you. =)
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Allison_Joyal
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Allison_Joyal:
Thanks, and I appreciate your caring enough to wish me good luck. But if my being alive today had depended on luck hahaha... I began having accidents of that kind when I was very young. I only told you about the one. Jehovah has been very good to me, and soon He will be good to all who choose to worship him.
Everything you want is coming soon. Ask a JW to explain how they know! Use your improved health to do it.
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Gravity_Man:
i realize that the negative power is strong, but it can't be stronger than the power of the creator, because nothing would even exist without god anyhow. So with absolute faith in god we can't be shaken, besides that, we should follow the commandments, to always stay pure and close to the truth. And also because by following the commandments its like walking in the direction of god, and the devils way is not the way of god, therefore by following gods' way, we naturally veer away from satan. And if we love god, we take good care of the earth, and we don't waste god's precious gifts that god gave us, like water, land, grain, petroleum, which are all wasted with the meat eaters diet. Its called being a good steward of the earth. So i've tried to be vegan, shop at farmers markets, and organic foods as much as i can. Its amazing how much god blesses us when we try to make the most responsible selfless choices for us, and being a good neighbor to the other beings that inhabit the earth by being a good steward and not wasting or poisoning gods earth. i wish you well and everyone well, i truly do, and i don'tlkieo be the one to tell people that the shouldn't do something, but i feel its my duty in a way. like i know this truth, and so i should share this with people. very nice talking with you, goodhealth, and godbless.
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Allison_Joyal:
Much that you say is true, and being good to people is great too. However recall Noah's ark please and the people who lived were on it, the rest not so much. You're obviously a very special person to Jesus or you would not have found me.
Another point you might want to research in a Bible is FEET. In many places where a person's feet are and what they are doing defines them to God. If your feet cannot get you into a Kingdom Hall then your future will be questionable becasue even though Noah built the ark his final act had to involve his feet walking up the ramp.
Feet are a key to be mindful of. You can't nutrition-talk your way into the New System about to begin. Helping an elderly lady cross the street doesn't quite get it either. The Bible is very clear you do the jesus walk of you don't make it. All that other stuff is Great, just like all my engine systems are also great, but it's the feet that have to take you the final lap.
It isn't difficult, no more difficult than not eating fruit from a certain tree when you're surrounded with all manner of other fruits. Have you ever been offered a home Bible study? We do that. It's no charge. We know a great deal about the Bible the other religions do not know. You would enjoy learning.
I have been fighting this bunch I mentioned earlier since 1989. I know their power. After my accident I suddenly realized how to supply all the world's electrical needs from lightning and submitted to the Dept. of Energy. You will notice we never got it. A world filled with wonderful people just like yourself, who you think should be able to win against them, well, we did not.
Their little group beat the bigger group without breaking a sweat.
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"almost double those that were predicted"
Climate change, sea level rise and extinction of species is happening much faster than anyone calculated.
All this time we thought this was our grandchildren's mess to clean up.
Surprise! We get to clean up our own mess.
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We are leaving it to them as well and that is patently immoral. But the oil soaked politicians in Congress will continue to approve pipelines and subsidize fossil fuel driven agriculture and roll back all the good we have done for the air, water, our biodiversity and our ability to sustain ourselves... then they will call for us to pray when something goes wrong. Our government needs an intervention.
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JanforGore:
I pray for human intervention.
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What I don't/can't understand is the congressmen and senators who continually approve legislation backed by big oil and big coal. When all hell breaks loose and the planet becomes unlivable, do they have a secret hideout or a different planet they can populate?
Even more unbelievable; most of these same politicians have children, yet they have no problem leaving a huge mess for them. Do they think their children are somehow immune to the same plight as the rest of us?
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Biodiversity is life.
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