<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 12px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><span style="padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/byggeix711x&ct=ga&cd=CAEYByoUMTUzMzM4NjA1Mzk5MzU0NjAwNDQyGjM2YjY2MmYwZmUxMTMyOTI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw20dCA_tCu6R4f0VlT9H8iX" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/byggeix711x%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYByoUMTUzMzM4NjA1Mzk5MzU0NjAwNDQyGjM2YjY2MmYwZmUxMTMyOTI6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw20dCA_tCu6R4f0VlT9H8iX&source=gmail&ust=1766938164348000&usg=AOvVaw0_moumd1oOn_XESLXdQ8lP" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">'Most of the <b>forest</b> is gray': <b>drought</b> devastates <b>forests</b> in southern Israel - Ynetnews</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
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Young trees with water bags around the base of their trunks (Image credit: <b>Forest</b> Service, Eastern Region / Public Domain). Transcript ...</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">========</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br>\u201cTen thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. <br>There was plenty of room to expand and move, and resources seemed endless.\u201d <br><br>Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.</div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">~~~~~~~~<br><br>Mora (2014) reviews \u201crecent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.\u201d <br><br>He argues that human population size, \u201c...despite being directly or indirectly linked to the deterioration of ecological systems and a key factor for the success of conserving species and ecosystems, has been rarely considered and in fact \u2018trivialized or ignored\u2019 by much of the conservation biology community.\u201d <br><br>Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles. Ecology and Society 19(1): 38. <br><<http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138>></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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