Beth Kantrowitz cites concrete human benefits like drug discovery, crop genetic diversity, & climate mitigation to argue that species extinction is a humanist issue not just a niche ecological concern, proposing that only humans can extend the kind of care to other species needed to save them.
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Species Extinction is a Humanist Issue - TheHumanist.com
It is not unusual for a few species to go extinct every million years. What is new and bad is the greatly increased rate of extinctions over the past 200 years, what some are calling the sixth great…