The Killer MacGuffin

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By Keith Kloor
Apr 24, 2009 1:42 AMNov 20, 2019 5:25 AM

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Several days ago, this story at Slate, by Brendan Borrell, argued that habitat destruction posed a more immediate threat to wildlife and biodiversity than climate change. That makes obvious sense. Until recently, ecological degradation, be it from deforestation or overfishing, was the pre-eminent environmental concern of our time. "Now, writes Borrell, "being green is all about greenhouse gases:

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