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> habitat loss due to rapidly accelerating climate change.
Could we please have some evidence that climate change is a primary cause of habitat loss, rather than human encroachment, chemical contamination, and other factors.
These species have survived many more drastic cycles of changing climate in the last several millennia, and even recent centuries, so if they are declining now, we have to ask, what is novel and has changed most significantly since the decline began to accelerate. Recent climate changes are not out of range.
Documented worldwide chemical contamination, spread of cities, light pollution, and chemical-dependent farms and concentrated livestock operations over the landscapes are unprecedented.
Far greater temperature fluctuations occurred during pre-industrial centuries and the evidence is easily and widely available. Regardless, these species survived and some flourished through various climate changes until now, when we increasingly live in a chemical soup.
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