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organicAnt · 3750 days ago · link · · parent · post: Noam Chomsky: The End of History? The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.
This is probably the best indicator of how out of sync humans are with this planet. We've distanced ourselves so much from the ecosystem that supports us that we no longer see the impact of our everyday actions on the planet. Sadly, I don't see this trend slowing down any time in the near future. Specially not with a single focused environmental policy of reducing global warming. The environmental challenges are multi-faceted and are being overshadowed by global warming discourse.One index of human impact is the extinction of species, now estimated to be at about the same rate as it was 65 million years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.