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Article: The dying of biodiversity.
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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LIP-SERVICE to the safeguarding of the degenerating natural world is now routine with politicians: they could all be reading from the same script. Each year the number of `protected' habitats grows proportionately to the worsening of conditions in those already in existence. Each year measures for pollution control are announced even as pollution increases from the offending sources and new processes and activities further contaminate the world around us. Each year human numbers maintain their exponential growth and swallow up the wilderness and countryside. Tens of thousands of animal and plant species are doomed beyond recovery to extinction by the first quarter of the ...