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<div><font face="Arial">"We're not only in the midst of a sixth
major extinction, we're moving further and further into it," says
Bruce Stein, senior director of climate adaptation and resilience at
the National Wildlife Foundation. "It's clear that we are going to
lose a lot of things, but it's also clear that we have the ability
to ensure that many of our systems will be different but will continue
to have ecological functionality and continue to support many of these
species."</font></div>
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"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that
we begin to see the present only when it is already
disappearing."<br>
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"We are not able even to<i> think</i> adequately about the behavior
that is at the annihilating edge."<br>
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R. D. Laing. Introduction,<i> The Politics of
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1" color="#000000">1967,
New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</font></div>
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