“We talk a lot about the climate crisis, but it’s not only the climate crisis that’s affecting us – there’s the ecological crisis. We’re in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, losing 200 species every day,” ​[Michal} Benmayor told attendees.

There had been unprecedented heat waves across the US, Europe and India in recent years, with wild fires causing extensive losses of fauna and flora, she said. And 2022 had been the driest year on record for Europe, with consecutive droughts in Africa and terrible flooding in Pakistan too, all of which was a result of human actions.

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