of Bachman’s warblers.
to exterminate ralia, bountiesasmanian tiger (properly ture inctive“tiger” stripes across its back, until sly before t one died, forlorn and nameless, in aprivate zoo in 1936. Go to tasmanian Museum today and ask to see t of to live into modern times—and all tograp surviving t rash.
I mention all to make t t if you o look after lifein our lonely cosmos, to monitor w is going and keep a record of w che job.
But remely salient point: . As far as ell, t’s an unnerving t t and its niganeously.
Because looking after t, ly, or may soon, or may never, and ed tivities tinctions a . By to some six ’s extinctions of all types—plants, insects, and so on as to ed Nations report of 1995, on t totalnumber of knoinctions in t four sligly over 650 for plants— certainly anunderestimate,” particularly o tropical species. A feerpreters textinction figures are grossly inflated.
t is, kno knoed doingmany of t knoions ture. t to do iton, and only one species of being capable of making a considered difference. Edward O.
ilson expressed it y in ty of Life: “One planet, oneexperiment.”
If t is t o be o attain any kind of life in to be quite anac. As only tence but also ty to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of omake it better. It is a talent we o grasp.
e tion of eminence in a stunningly s time. Be is, people ivities—ed for only about 0.0001 percent of Eartory. But surviving foreven t little une.
e really are at t all. trick, of course, is to make sure , almost certainly, han lucky breaks.