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Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sink
Wilderness is pretty much a thing of the past, says report |
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02 Jul 2007 |
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| Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sink Wilderness is pretty much a thing of the past, says report Regardless of whether humankind was given dominion over the earth, we've most certainly taken it. A new report in Science calculates that only 17 percent of global land mass has been untainted by human dwellings, agriculture, or roads. And that was as of 1995; we'd venture to guess that the percentage is e ... |
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