#Extinction is not an abstract concept tucked away in natural history books. It is happening now, accelerating in our own lifetimes, and driven by decisions made in parliaments and boardrooms. #BobBrown recalls the great auk’s annihilation in 1844, when the last pair was strangled for museum rewards, setting a grotesque precedent: the rarer a #species becomes, the more valuable it is to exploit. Since then, countless others have been wiped away,
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