HUMANS THE CAUSE OF "BIOLOGICAL ANNIHILATION"

On July 15/17 the Waterloo Region Record published a story titled "Era of "biological annihilation" underway, scientists warn". "...the "normal" extinction rate over the last two million years has been that two species go extinct every 100 years because of evolutionary and other factors.". Currently we are losing two species every year. Habitat loss, climate change, deforestation for agriculture and pollution are the main causes. All of this we are advised in a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences authored by three professors at Stanford University.

One of the authors, Paul Erlich (the Population Bomb) states that "We are toxifying the entire planet.". The bottom line is that "There is only one overall solution, and that is to reduce the scale of the human enterprise". "Population growth and increasing consumption among the rich is driving it.".

These scientists have put nicely what I and others have stated a little more bluntly. Human beings are a plague upon the planet. When our species goes extinct, my only hope is that we don't destroy all other life here on earth as well.