[MCN] 10, 000 studies : Even animals that are adapting to heat can't adapt fast enough

[Lance Olsen]

Many Animals Can’t Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change
In sifting through 10,000 studies, researchers find some species seem to be able to cope with global warming, but are still running out of time.
https://www.wired.com/story/many-animals-arent-adapting-fast-enough-to-survive-climate-change/ <https://www.wired.com/story/many-animals-arent-adapting-fast-enough-to-survive-climate-change/>

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This isn’t a phenomenon exclusive to human-caused climate change. Life on Earth is so diverse because it’s so adaptable: Temperatures go up or down, and a species might move into a new habitat and evolve to become something different over time. 

But what we humans have unleashed on this planet is unparalleled. “We’re experiencing something on the order of 1,000 times faster change in temperature than what was seen in paleo times,” says Radchuk. “There are limits to these adaptive responses, and the lag is getting too big.”


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“In a corrupt environment, resources will be directed toward such non-productive areas as the police, armed forces and other organs of social control and repression as the elites move to protect themselves, their positions and their material wealth … and resources otherwise available for socio-economic development will be diverted into security expenditure."

John McFarlane. Transnational Crime, Corruption and Crony Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Transnational Organized Crime. Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 1998

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“Politicians strain to outdo each other with promises to 'get tough' on crime and to bring law and order back to the streets….There is no question that common street crime is an important social concern. But its image has become so bloated in the mirror of public opinion that it blocks our view of the white collar crimes which are both more costly and more dangerous to society."

James Coleman. The Criminal Elite. 1985. St. Martin's Press



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