Save the planet?

I love all this "save the planet" stuff.

Greenpeace and others run around to save a few whales while thousands of other species go extinct every year. The current annual loss has been calculated at 20,000 to 30,000 species. Entropic devolution of our planet is clearly evident. I guess it gives people a sense of purpose to try to save a few species on the way down...

Dr. Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University estimates that if 1% of the world's tropical rain forests are destroyed each year, a conservative estimate based on current rates of deforestation, then over 100 years there would be a loss of at least 20% of all species, assuming extinction rates remain constant. Based on a total of 10 million species, the current annual loss has been calculated to be 20,000 to 30,000 species.

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