A sociological approach to global biodiversity loss (commentary)

Mongabay
Jan 18, 2019, 12:39 pm905 ptsInteresting
Several years ago, my colleague Richard York and I were sitting outside on a Eugene, Oregon patio discussing Elizabeth Kolbert’s then-new book, The Sixth Extinction, and we came to an odd conclusion. As Kolbert makes clear, there is no question that contemporary social processes are primarily responsible for…

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