It has been said that biodiversity (or the loss of biodiversity,
i.e. the loss of a species to extinction) is the most important
issue that humans face. The argument goes something like this: we
can change our population growth rates (if we want to)...we can fix
acid rain, even global climate change, we can stop dumping wastes
into rivers...but when we lose a species to extinction..... it is
forever (there is no getting the species back).
Since we are reading...