It's hard to believe, but the vast majority of people around the world don't understand that the growing number of extinctions of plant and animal species is a cause for concern. They seem to think that human beings are somehow separate from the world around us.
Here's what most people don't know:
Up to 30,000 species per year are going extinct: three per hour.
50 percent of all primates and 100 percent of all great apes are threatened with extinction.
Three of the world's eight tiger subspecies became extinct in the past 60 years; the remaining five are all endangered.
Humans have already driven 20 percent of all birds extinct.
12 percent of mammals, 12 percent of birds, 31 percent of reptiles, 30 percent of amphibians, and 37 percent of fish are threatened with extinction.
The consequences of thoughtless consumption and weak environmental policies here and overseas are bound to bite us on the backside!.
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