A:? I believe in my core that it’s the right thing to do. In part, it’s because of the respect I have for the other forms of life we share this planet with. But it’s also because our well-being as a species is so intricately linked to the well-being of other species in ways we have yet to even fully understand. As biologist Paul Ehrlich has observed, letting species go extinct—letting them drop out of the system that we depend on, one by one—is akin to sawing off the tree limb that we ourselves are sitting on.
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