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Biodiversity and Ethics: Do We Have a Responsibility to Preserve?

@inproceedings{Picard2005BiodiversityAE,
  title={Biodiversity and Ethics: Do We Have a Responsibility to Preserve?},
  author={Kathryn T Picard},
  year={2005}
}

Kathryn T Picard

Published 2005

Political Science

Biodiversity is the dynamic variability among extant organisms, including that within and between species and environments. An estimated 20 million species exist in the global ecosystem, the evolutionary progeny of a lineage stretching back 3.5 billion years. However, current levels of biodiversity are threatened by what scientists describe as a modern, anthropogenic mass extinction—a " human meteor " —with researchers estimating the accelerated extinction rate at 100 to 1,000 times that of… CONTINUE READING

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