Extinction of Plants and Animals

• Diversity is a benefit à Examples

  • Pollinators—co-evolution à different ones for different plants

  • Agricultural species collapse—what happens if only use a few sub-species and those become compromised. Need for maintaining heirloom and locale-specific varieties

  • Deforestation

• Who we’ve lost already

• Who we are in danger of losing

• The slide toward extinction can be stopped or reversed IF WE POP