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laodan discovered 11 months ago- Millions of Missing Birds in the NYT by VERLYN KLINKENBORG
... this is not extinction, but it is how things look before extinction happens. We love to finally care when the death watch is on. It makes us feel so very human. But in the past 40 years, we have killed all those millions of birds or, let us say, unintentionally caused a dramatic population loss, simply by going about business as usual. The Audubon Society portrait of common bird species in decline is really a report on who humans are. Let me offer a proposition about Homo sapiens. We are the only species on earth capable of an ethical awareness of other species and, thus, the only species capable of happily ignoring that awareness. So far, our economic interests have proved to be completely incompatible with all but a very few forms of life. In our everyday economic behavior, we seem determined to discover whether we can live alone on earth. E.O. Wilson has argued eloquently and persuasively that we cannot, that who we are depends as much on the richness and diversity of the biological life around us as it does on any inherent quality in our genes. Millions of Missing Birds The bees, The birds, The fish, Don't worry will remain Homo Sapiens. But having destroyed his habitat...
- Millions of Missing Birds in the NYT by VERLYN KLINKENBORG
