[Animals] trends: extinct or endangered species, do we include ourselves or avoid it?

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Last week we wrote about the immense error and cost or impact of Trump’s irrational decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. The subject is so important that I sat down on a dozen readings that are worth sharing, to understand the dimension and magnitude of the problem of climate change.

Visitors to the World Wide Fund for Nature website will find this headline: biodiversity has declined 58% in 40 years. The data, alarming in itself, is part of the latest edition of the 2016 Living Planet report that, every two years, this NGO updates on the state of biodiversity in the world.

Among the reflections that emerge from this reading, I hasten to mention one of the most profound: today’s world lives on the edge. This life on the edge happens on an extraordinary paradox: never before has mankind reached such great knowledge about the undisputed importance of biodiversity, but at the same time, the speed with which species disappears is also unprecedented. In fact, unless there is an immediate radical shift in our behaviour, by the end of 2020, just three years from now, that 58% could rise to 67%. No one can forget what the concept of extinction describes: the death of the last specimen of a given species on earth.