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Good point about birds. Add them to amphibians, fish and insects and it would make this look less impressive.


Less impressive? Do you think there is no significant loss of biodiversity?


In the cities yes. I live outside the city. Some of the biodiversity near me is deadly and city dwellers haven't a clue.

Regardless, fish outweigh mammals by at least an order of magnitude. then calculate arthropods, mollusks, bacteria and plants and you will see this is an overstating of a complex ecosystem.


We’ve decimated many bird populations. Silent Spring is all about that, albeit 50 years old.




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