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Plastic Pollution

The U.N. Reports That 1 Million Species Could Go Extinct. It Shows How Hard It Will Be to Heal the Planet Plastic Pollution

The U.N. Reports That 1 Million Species Could Go Extinct. It Shows How Hard It Will Be to Heal the Planet

There’s an awful lot of awful in the just-released summary of a new U.N. report on biodiversity and ecosystem. There’s the tenfold increase in plastic pollution since 1980, for example. There’s the 400 million tons of heavy metals, toxic sludge and fertilizer…
bubmag
May 7, 2019
Up to 1 million species are facing extinction, according to a new UN report. Without them, we could run out of food. Plastic Pollution

Up to 1 million species are facing extinction, according to a new UN report. Without them, we could run out of food.

A growing body of evidence suggests the planet is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. The phrase "mass extinction" typically conjures up images of the asteroid crash that led to the twilight of the dinosaurs. But we are most likely in the middle of an…
bubmag
May 6, 2019