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Marcus Stewart
@Marcusdstewart
Documentary TV producer ('Eco Eye') Science enthusiast. Passionate about evidence based debate. Always open to being corrected. Views and tweets are my own
Jul 1, 2020 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
@ShellenbergerMD wrote an opinion piece in
@Quillette with some very big claims on environment issues in order to push his new book sales. Here’s a thread on the accuracy of these claims. @EcoEye
#energytwitter #climatetwitter @gimenezbarbat @BlairKing_ca Claim 1: “Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”
False (unfortunately) - this statement completely misrepresents the view of actual scientists in the field.

“Although biologists are still debating how much the current extinction rate exceeds the background rate,