| By 2050 the human population will top 9 billion, and world meat consumption will likely double | The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century |
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| As the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises, the oceans absorb a lot of it | Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street Press |
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2| Ceballos, Gerardo; Ehrlich, Paul R; Dirzo, Rodolfo 23 May 2017 | Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor |
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| This causes the acidity of seawater to increase | Oceans play an important role in keeping the Earth's carbon cycle in balance |
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8| The overarching driver of species extinction is human population growth and increasing per capita consumption | Ripple WJ, Wolf C, Newsome TM, Galetti M, Alamgir M, Crist E, Mahmoud MI, Laurance WF 13 November 2017 |
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"Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities".
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