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I’m honestly impressed that there are any functioning natural ecosystems on Earth at all at this point.
by webwielder2 6y ago
I’m honestly impressed that there are any functioning natural ecosystems on Earth at all at this point.
- guenthert 6y agoDon't worry, you wouldn't be not impressed for long.
- dredmorbius 6y agoThe ones that remain are tremendously compromised. Our benchmarks tend to be recent: personal experience within a lifetime especially. For the oceans, little data predates the 1950s, after much damage was done. The degradation since is still staggering. Over the past few centuries, let alone millennia, impacts have been massive. Few are evident directly, most require geological orother scientific inference ... buried traces of past ecosystems.
- dTal 6y agoA "fun" thing to do is to zoom in on anywhere at all in Google Earth. There's basically no natural world left, on land anyway.