More species are becoming extinct today than at any time since - TopicsExpress



          

More species are becoming extinct today than at any time since dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the Earth by an asteroid 65 million years ago. Yet this bio-Armageddon, caused mainly by humans, is greeted by most of us with a yawn and a shrug. One fewer bat species? Ive got my mortgage to pay! Another frog extinct? There are plenty more! In his new book Australian anthropologist Thom Van Dooren tries to break through this wall of indifference by showing us how were connected to the living world, and how, when a species becomes extinct, we dont just lose another number on a list. We lose part of ourselves.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:57:59 +0000

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