Without any scientific support or substance *apart from all the science*... I explain here how the @IPBES #GlobalAssessment's estimate of 1 million threatened species was derived, and also what's wrong with some of the critiques that have been trotted out ipbes.net/news/million-threa…

"A million threatened species? Thirteen questions and answers"

Guest Blog by Andy Purvis, IPBES Global Assessment Coordinating Lead Author

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Phil Prange @PhilPrange
31 May 2019
Replying to @grist @OscDomesticated
The UN’s “1 million species” number was without any scientific support or substance.
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U.N. Says 1 Million Species Will Go Extinct Without a 'Fundamental, System-wide Reorganization'

But predictions of the apocalypse are again likely overstated.

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