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Burning fossil fuels helped drive Earth's most massive extinction
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Burning fossil fuels helped drive Earth's most massive extinction

Massive volcanic eruptions ignited oil and coal deposits in Siberia in the events that led to the Permian-Triassic “Great Dying” event.
Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis: The Anthropocene began with colonisation, slavery and the 'great dying'
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Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis: The Anthropocene began with colonisation, slavery and the 'great dying'

It marked the point when humans began to exert a geologically-huge influence on the environment.
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