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< Planet Earth is 4,600 years old.                                             >
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< 	If we condense this inconceivable time-span into an understandable          >
< concept, we can liken the Earth to a person of 46 years of age.              >
< 	Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person's life, and         >
< whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span, we know      >
< that that only at the age of 42 did the Earth begin to flower.               >
< 	Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago,         >
< when the planet was 45. Mammals arrived only 8 months ago; in the middle     >
< of last week, human-like apes evolved into ape-like humans, and at the       >
< weekend the last ice age enveloped the Earth.                                >
< 	Modern humans have been around for four hours. During the last hour,        >
< we discovered agriculture. The industrial revolution began a minute ago.     >
< 	During those sixty seconds of biological time, humans have made a           >
< rubbish of Paradise.                                                         >
< 	We have caused the extinction of many hundreds of animal species,           >
< ransacked the planet for fuel and now stand like brutish infants gloating    >
< over this meteoric rise to ascendency, on the brink of final mass extinction >
< and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system.        >
<                                                                              >
< - Against all odds, Greenpeace opposes the destruction of the natural world. >
<   Donations to Greenpeace, Northampton N1 1BR                                >
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