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Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

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Flannery on Evolution: Competition Leads to Cooperation

04 min 01 sec

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Paleontologist Tim Flannery reminds listeners that while evolution functions as a competitive mechanism, the mutually dependent relationships that it produces should not be taken for granted. "The mechanism is pretty nasty and brutish," he says. "The legacy -- the thing it gives rise to -- is an enormously cooperative world."
Flannery: Why We Can Be Optimistic About Climate Change

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Global warming activist Tim Flannery responds to fears that human nature is not suited for the massive action that is required to combat climate change. Despite recent setbacks in reaching a global climate accord, he explains, individual countries have taken it upon themselves to reduce emissions and move toward a more sustainable future.
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Posted: 06.23.11, 06:26 PM

Guess Tim didn't hear the recent news from "International Program on the State of the Ocean" our Earth's oceans face an imminent mass extinction of epic proportions because of pollution, dead zones, overfishing, global warming, and CO2 ACIDIFICATION. Ocean acidification is already up +30% the last 100 years because of dissolved CO2. CO2 is rising more than 2ppm per year and at atmospheric CO2 levels of 450ppm in 25 years oceanographers warn ocean acidification may STOP or severely slow the growth of many CaCO3 forming corals & plankton at the base of our ocean's food chain. Oops! Otherwise, no problem.