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Conservationists who want to cosset nature like a delicate flower, to protect it from the threat of alien species, are the ethnic cleansers of nature, neutralizing the forces that they should be promoting.
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Conservationists, it seems, are dedicated to protecting the weak and vulnerable, the endangered and the abused. Nature generally promotes the strong and the wily, the resilient and versatile.
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What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?
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I am a reporter on climate change. I have been following the topic for New Scientist magazine in the UK and others for twenty years now. And when I talk to climate scientists during their coffee breaks and at their private conferences--as I have done extensively both before and after completing this book--I hear them warn that the current accepted predictions could be much too optimistic; that their statistical models of climate, sophistica..
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Tim Lenton from the University of East Anglia told the Cambridge meeting: "We are close to being committed to a collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, but we don't think we have passed the tipping point yet." How long have we got? Maybe less than a decade."
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