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"We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment — or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc."
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Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution. It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. The environmental degradation process amplifies the impact of

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"The human predicament was exceptional in that, empowered by a planetary larder of fossil fuels, they developed a global complex society, grew exuberantly at the expense of surrounding life, and collapsed a planetary life-support system. The consumer society selected for a phantom of happiness/purpose that the consumer bots were conditioned to pursue by working to make ‘money’ they use to consume products produced by an economic system NOT REMOTELY CLOSE TO SUSTAINABLE. Our collective unintended Calhoun rat-like experiment on ourselves is having what should be expected outcomes as our empire-building socio-economic pathology makes for a world of pathologies (or what was merely a world of wounds as Aldo Leopold noted) filled by human pathogens."
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"Native birds and small mammals are already being negatively affected on multiple fronts by climate change, urban development, deforestation, toxic chemicals, invasive species, and the degradation of native grasslands. Domestic and feral cats are just one more factor making their survival increasingly tenuous. The effects on our environment from the loss of the multitude of small mammals and birds extend well beyond their direct killing by domestic cats. Birds are important for the pollination and seed dispersal of many plants. Small mammals are prey for bobcats, foxes, dingoes, weasels, caracals, ocelots, snakes, and birds of prey. Domestic cats have essentially replaced all those animals in urban and rural areas."
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