Is humanity pushing earth past its tipping point?

Brandon Keim, reporting for Wired:

“There are some biological realities we can’t ignore,” said paleoecologist Anthony Barnosky of the University of California, Berkeley. “What I’d like to avoid is getting caught by surprise.”

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