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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert is required reading.

We’re in the midst of a very rare event, that we caused, are making worse, and we don’t know what will ultimately happen.

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I just read Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, which has a plot with a backdrop of Monarch butterflies, their migration and the threats climate changes can pose to them. It's a great book, I recommend it.

If history is a guide, greed will win out and weak men will suffer at their own hands.

We're really talking about humanity versus the ecosystem here though. If there is an ecological collapse, that would also mean societal collapse, and no one wins.

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