Bill McKibben wrote his groundbreaking book The End of Nature in 1989. It highlighted clearly the negative and damaging power of industrial civilisation. Many scientists have since declared that we are now living in the Anthropocene epoch. One species, the human species, has become the dominant species. It is the age of human colonialism!
The human footprint on our precious planet Earth is now so large that it leaves little space for wildlife. Human encroachment of land is so extensive and rapid that ever-increasing areas of the Earth are being occupied by agri-business and factory farming. ...
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