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Potential? The Holocene Extinction is already the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, and that's pre-climate-change.

• Planktonne 3mo ago
  I know, but currently we still have rhubarb. The article is extremely blasé about even more species losing their environment.
  • card_zero 3mo ago
    Rhubarb isn't native to the UK. Its origins are mysterious (the "barb" is for barbarian) but I think it came over with the Romans. I had a feeling that the Tiber was named after rhubarb, but I'm remembering something wrong there evidently.
    • pvaldes 3mo ago
      Most probably Asian. There are closer Hymalayan species, if I remember correctly
    • t43562 3mo ago
      I know it grows well in Zimbabwe at least. My mum used to make a lot of rhubarb crumble. Yum!