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VIDEO: Why it’s time to think about human extinction with Dr David Suzuki

The environmentalist, activist, professor of genetics and science broadcaster hits us with some home truths about what our future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been.

How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse.

The threat of global annihilation may feel as present as it did during the Cold War, but today's high-security shelters could not be more different from their 20th-century counterparts.

Say "doomsday bunker" and most people would imagine a concrete room filled with cots and canned goods.

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Investor Jeremy Grantham is worried about the world.

“It’s one thing for the world to be deteriorating, but deteriorating at an increasingly fast rate is particularly dangerous and scary.“

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Third of Earth's soil is acutely degraded due to agriculture.
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Third of Earth's soil is acutely degraded due to agriculture.

Fertile soil is being lost at rate of 24 billion tons a year through intensive farming as demand for food increases, says UN-backed study.

Third of Earth's soil is acutely degraded due to agriculture

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