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Some epic #ExtinctionDenialism by Matt Ridley here merits a point-by-point rebuttal. THREAD 1/23
“Much of the human destruction of biodiversity happened a long time ago” Yes, the loss of megafauna onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… caused by over-hunting changed the face of the planet through the loss of ecosystem processes and was accompanied by innumerable co-extinctions 2/23
Yes, this loss on continents was then followed by loss of island faunas as and when we reached them and often driven by our other mammalian accomplices – cats, rats, dogs which to this day science.sciencemag.org/content/305/56… are doing huge damage to insular systems 3/23
