Past, present and future. All determine the time to come. #time

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Past
Five times earlier in history, the Earth was hit by a massive extinction of plant and animal species, a so-called mass extinction. A mass extinction or mass extinction is the global extinction of many types of organisms in a relatively short period of time.

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This graph shows biodiversity during the Fanerozoic era (550 Ma to the present). The yellow darts indicate the five big mass extinctions, blue arrows “regular” extinctions.

Based on the decline in biodiversity over the past 500 years, scientists are now warning that we are on the verge of a sixth wave.


Present
Nature is our greatest ally” Sir David also warned that the “natural world is fading” and predicts that the loss of biodiversity, which he describes as the true tragedy of our time, is 'still unfolding '. “The living world is a unique and spectacular miracle, but the way we humans live on Earth makes it fall into disrepair. People have conquered the world. We're replacing the wild with the tame. This movie is my testimony and my vision for the future.

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