stock here, written in 1986 1988 this prediction of species die offs and problems created by lack of diversity of life forms (sheesh, and just lack of presence of life forms)
Let's hope that this ecologists have about as much success as modeling the future as climate scientists.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219310/
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"This utter dependence of organisms on appropriate environments
(Ehrlich, 1986) is what makes ecologists so certain that today's trends
of habitat destruction and modification—especially in the high-diversity
tropical forest (where at least one-half of all species are believed to
dwell)—are an infallible recipe for biological impoverishment. Those
politicians and social scientists who have questioned the extent of
current extinctions are simply displaying their deep ignorance of
ecology; habitat modification and destruction and the extinction of
populations and species go hand in hand."
The Loss of Diversity Causes and Consequences – Paul R. Ehrlich – 1988
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