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October 2013: Uncontrolled experiment or planetary accident? In the third contribution to my column “On the Edge” published in ApoGeo (formerly Imaging Notes) with the subheading “Uncontrolled experiment or planetary accident?”, I make the claim that the “uncontrolled experiment” we are conducting with the planet would better be termed an “extinction-class event.” The magnitude of changes on the planet, the scale of species extinction, and the speed at which these changes take place are comparable to what an extinction-class impact of an asteroid or volcanic eruption would cause. The outcome of the experiment already seems to be clear with more than one third of species already extinct.

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