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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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3. Yes, the problem is really biospheric collapse.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 05:23 PM

Feb 2016

With anthropogenic climate change, human appropriation of other species' habitats, and over-fishing at the top of a lengthening list of human impacts that are causing the collapse.

Unfortunately, humans are largely blind to the fact that we're already in a collapse. IMO this is due to our limited "awareness horizon", our normalcy bias and our desire to recognize only the growth of human activity.

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