[warning: this is a bullshit editorial in so many ways. The authors basically trash Paul Erlich and praise trophy hunting as a way to save animals from extinction (no mention of how twisted, destructive or hedonistic it is). This would all be a bad joke, if it wasnt so sad and maddening…]
For millions of years, Australia had no human inhabitants. When people finally arrived there some 45,000 years ago, the continent had 24 different creatures weighing 100 pounds or more. Within a few millennia, 23 were wiped out.
In his book “Sapiens,” Yuval Noah Harari notes: “Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo Sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinction. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.”
From all indications, we are not about to be dethroned. A new study published in a journal of the National Academy of Sciences says nearly 200 species…
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Exposing the Big Game 