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Botany, geography, natural history, humans, and the arts. Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawai'i. Thomas R. Belfield - MA - Department of Geography - University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Nānā ao.
📍Yakama lands.
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We're seeing this in real time. History written in the present tense.
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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quite well from the fossil record. Even just what we've recorded, not taking into consideration the species that we miss, because many species of course have very small ranges, they're very tiny, they live in a very cryptic lifestyle. Most extinctions actually go unnoticed until well after they've occurred. So even if we just look at the ones that we definitely know go on extinct that we've observed, we're looking at an extinction rate that's about sort of an average of about a thousand times the rate that occurs between these mass extinction events. That's what we're in now. And everything that we look at points to the fact that it's perhaps even larger than that. So while we haven't achieved that threshold yet, we're on the way. And even more strikingly is that it's not going to happen in two and a half million years. It's going to be a century scale event. So this is potentially the largest mass extin-or I'd say the most important or the highest magnitude mass extinction event that has ever occurred in the history of planet Earth. It's happening now.
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I just got a copy of your book. It's in the mail and have not read it yet. But I hope you gave a shout out to Sooyong Park and his book The Great Soul of Siberia. It's a great read.
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Alberta oilsands are a crime against humanity.
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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best time of day
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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he gonna fall over at any time soon.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM