How does global warming expedite the extinction of animal life on the planet?
Most animals, like most plants, are adapted to live in the climate in which they evolved. They evolved slowly in response to climate changes in the past that occurred naturally and slowly. Now climate change is about to happen at a time scale which is much faster than animals can evolve. The ones that are fleet on the foot, so to speak, and can move, like birds, may do relatively well; and the species that are trapped in unique places, like corals, they can swim, but the coral reefs and all the fish and all the plants that they are adapted to living with, they would have to leave them behind and so probably won’t do very well. Some species are not fleet, and they’re not going to survive in a warming world, and there will be a grave loss of biodiversity due to global warming. Other species may be able to move, but they may move to places which don’t have the resources that they need. The place with the right climate for a certain bird may not have the right food for a certain bird. We’r
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