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Once, on Facebook I wrote:

How do we expect to feed that many people while we exhaust the resources that remain?

Human activities are behind the extinction crisis. Commercial agriculture, timber extraction, and infrastructure development are causing habitat loss and our reliance on fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2016/02/09/unless-it-changes-capitalism-will-starve-humanity-by-2050/

And according to the president and the increasingly reactionary GOP party, it’s a myth, a hoax. I’m baffled so many people support the promulgators of this daydream simply because the truth is irreconcilably hard. Since when has ignoring the truth stopped it?