[news] End of the Wild: The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

[Resist!ca]

"Over the next 100 years or so as many as half of the Earth's species, representing a quarter of the planet's genetic stock, will either completely or functionally disappear. The land and the oceans will continue to teem with life, but it will be a peculiarly homogenized assemblage of organisms naturally and unnaturally selected for their compatibility with one fundamental force: us. Nothing--not national or international laws, global bioreserves, local sustainability schemes, nor even 'wildlands' fantasies--can change the current course. The path for biological evolution is now set for the next million years. And in this sense "the extinction crisis"--the race to save the composition, structure, and organization of biodiversity as it exists today--is over, and we have lost."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/14/18012/3293