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Fri 03 Mar 2008Sixth extinction now well under way on the
planet
The folly of human activity bears heavily on nature and causes one species to die off every six minutes, writes John Gibbons
'AN ARMAGEDDON is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity."
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