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Topic 3 [article]:  Earth will survive; we may not.  Astrophysicist Adam Frank says that “pretending we can just extend the Holocene in perpetuity” is just a foolish excuse to put off making inevitable choices brought about by climate change.

• (a)  What did Frank mean by his statement above?
• (b)  Some biologists, particularly conservation biologists reacted negatively to this essay. What is your reaction to this essay?
• (c)  Share what you feel this teaches you about biology (the study of living organisms).