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Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

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Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

by The Daily Eye Team May 12 2016, 5:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 18 secs

With the human population fast approaching 8 billion, human beings are leveling forests, clearing savannas, and transforming entire landscapes to make way for industrial-scale agriculture, highways, and an increasingly expansive urban footprint. As a result, one in five plant species worldwide is at risk of extinction. Agriculture alone is responsible for about a third of the risk.

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