This column is hopeful. I promise.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0northern white rhinoceros\u00a0is now functionally extinct. Sudan \u2014 the last male of his kind \u2014 passed away recently. There are two females remaining but obviously they can produce no more of their species without a male \u2014 and mating with nearby giraffes is not something in which they seem interested.<\/p>\n
This is not the end but the beginning.<\/p>\n
This is still the beginning of a great extinction, the\u00a0sixth great extinction\u00a0in earth\u2019s history and the first one caused by humans. The others were caused by things like massive asteroid impacts creating damage equivalent to a million nuclear bombs, and judging by the humans I\u2019ve met, I could picture us wreaking an equivalent amount of havoc.<\/p>\n
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