Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth

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45. I didn't say there was literally no water for 300 years

and I didn't say it was in the desert. There are trees alive today that survived this drought.

http://www.pcas.org/Vol35N23/3523Boxt.pdf

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

1. The end of the ice age was a major climatic shift.

2. All the species at the time were massively affected by this shift.

3. Many species went extinct.

4. All the species alive today are descendants of animals, plants, and other species that were alive then.

5. All the species alive today have ancestors that survived a previous climate catastrophe.

6. There must be something in species we see today that seem to be confined to one habitat that enables them to withstand changes to their habitat.


Some species will go extinct due to climate change, but we've already driven a boatload of species to extinction through outright destruction of their habitat. Clearing a functioning ecosystem and building stuff on top of it constitutes outright destruction.