A Quote by Jayni Chase
It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.
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I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.
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By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.
I'm trying to add and show more every single year, you know, as much as our system allows me.
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