Lyle Lewis

Former Endangered Species Branch Chief with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and writer focusing on the Sixth Mass Extinction, human behavior, and deep time.

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Business as usual takes a species to the brink of extinction; enormous ongoing effort is required simply to keep it there.

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@MissJane_M_ @ECOWARRIORSS 🙏

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People once escaped civilization to experience nature. Now they stand in civilization-sized lines to experience what remains of it.

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@MissJane_M_ @ZeebraDesigns Very true…..unfortunately.

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These species are found nowhere else, but they are remnants of ecosystems already radically simplified by human activity over the last 13,000 years.

The Channel Islands are “pristine” in the same way I’m an adolescent.

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@ZeebraDesigns Feel free! …. and good luck with your presentation!

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@LyleLewis__Real #1. "Is it better to be older and to have seen and experienced wildlands and watch them destroyed or to be younger and never know they existed?" @LyleLewis__Real
#2. "Protecting forests by logging them is like protecting your data by deleting your hard drive." @LyleLewis__Real

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Evolution keeps converging on similar architectures because physics and ecology constrain what works.

Evolution experiments. Physics edits.

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@HonestyPartyOrg The volume of whining will intensify before quieting.

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Salmon disappear first.
Then orcas decline.
Then seabirds starve.

Food webs unravel from the bottom upward.

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@todhale We’ve had our foot on the accelerator for 2.5 centuries. Our lifestyle might be nonnegotiable, but so are biophysical limits.

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Negotiations are underway to ensure enough water exists for King Cow… and, if possible, for people too.

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@MtShastaWriter Paper water. It’s been happening for decades

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@todhale Inefficiency is us.

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@StanWillenbring Empty pockets are few and far between.

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If there’s enough lag between cause and consequence, modern policy treats the cause as acceptable and the consequences as someone else’s problem.

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@HonestyPartyOrg @Race2Extinct 😁

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This is a reminder: I do not currently control the @Race2Extinct X account. Any direct messages, fundraising requests, voting requests, cryptocurrency promotions, or links sent from that account should be treated as fraudulent until further notice.

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@Oxygen_Token Exactly

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An osprey captured mid-dive just moments before hitting the water.

Photographer Chen Chengguang documented the bird’s precise hunting sequence as it folded its wings and extended its talons seconds before catching its prey.

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@patmatsueda It appears to have happened to many people. Be careful Pat!

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

Quick update: I still have not regained access to my X account and have not heard back from X support. The account remains compromised and under someone else’s control.

If you see posts coming from that account, please understand they are not coming from me.
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