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Melanie Challenger

On Extinction: How We Became Estranged From Nature

Hay Festival 2012, 
The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industry and agriculture is leading to the Earth’s sixth great extinction of species, an extinction thousands of times more extensive than that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man.