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Humans destroying our planet

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Click here. A dire United Nations report, based on thousands of scientific studies, paints an urgent picture of biodiversity loss and finds that habitat loss and climate change are both amplifying the danger of widespread species extinction including our own. Released on May 6 in Paris, The UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’   is very direct and the most damning evidence that man is at the root of this evil.  This  landmark new report, the most comprehensive of its kind from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), makes a strong case about how humans are causing damage to the natural world at an accelerating pace. The interconnected web of life on earth is shrinking. More than a million species are considered to be threatened with extinction. The number 1 cause is not climate change but habitat loss, although climate change is one of the other main factors at work.