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UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change' | Environment | The Guardian

By STEPHEN HOLZER

Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report ? Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet

via www.guardian.co.uk

"The TEEB report shows that on average one third of Earth's habitats have been damaged by humans ? but the problem ranges from zero percent of ice, rock and polar lands to 85% of seas and oceans and more than 70% of Mediterranean shrubland. It also warns that in spite of growing awareness of the dangers, destruction of nature will "still continue on a large scale". The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has previously estimated that species are becoming extinct at a rate 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be without humans."

This the best Reader comment in The Guardian on this article:

"I suppose if this is shouted loud enough, then it will form sufficient distraction so that AGW can be allowed to quietly die and the eco movement can seque seamlessly onto species loss as the next oh-my-gaia-we're-all-doomed-it's-all-man's-fault catastrophism.... "

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