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Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
While you are tripping over semantics ponder on this:

Is it 'getting faster' if 'much much faster' is faster than 'much faster'?

I don't have much patience for linguistic prescriptivists. If you are 'correcting' other people's sentences you understood exactly what they mean.

Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
What do you expect to gain from somebody who already agrees with you, Mr Obvious?

Having the last word was a really poor effort at conserving energy.

Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
Seeming as you clicked the down-vote button and not the 'reply' button, I am going to just assume you don't know...

Congratulations. You win the argument, and the internet.

Pointing out the problems without offering solutions isn't a very useful thing to do.

Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
You come across as somebody who doesn't have an answer to the actual hard question. Yes - it's faster now than 150 years ago.

What should the rate of change be at? What should we be aiming for?

Give me a bounded interval.

Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
So you are talking about Calculus. 'Much faster' implies 2nd derivative.

What rate of change is your baseline for ‘objective normality’?

Entropee··on Sea urchin population soars 100x in five years
Which time-interval is your baseline for ‘objective normality’?