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We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Heise argues th
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Catastrophic Thinking
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A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think