HUMANITY AND WILD NATURE WILL LIKELY BOTH BE FLOURISHING IN 2100

“HUMAN ACTIVITY HAS wiped out two-thirds of the world’s wildlife since 1970,” CNN reported on September 10. Later that month, The Guardian reported that “40 percent of [the] world’s plant species [are] at risk of extinction.”

In an even more worrisome article, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in July, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich and his colleagues asserted that “the ongoing sixth mass extinction may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization.” Around the same time, The Daily Mail warned that “human civilization stands a 90 percent chance of collapse within decades due to deforestation.”

These dire calculations and projections come from