Desdemona Despair

May 6, 2019

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  • Global biodiversity report shows “catastrophic decline” in wildlife populations – “In just my lifetime, 50 years, we’ve seen a decline of 73 percent in the average size of these wildlife populations”
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  • Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturing.

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