Gaia Opens An Eye
Excerpted from Paper Tigers
by Diane Haynes
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34,000 plant species hover at the verge of extinction. One in eight bird species. One in four mammals. One in three of all known amphibians, four of every ten turtles and tortoises. Half of all the known fish species in Gaia’s waters. We—you and I—lose a brother or a sister species every ten minutes.
There is no hope in those numbers. And yet there are those of us who hope—that our recycling, our research, our writing, our voting, and then our children (when we are too discouraged too tired too old) will change these numbers, raise the dead, effect a miracle. We have been calling from the fringes for over a century, in still, small voices, praying with our lives for a miracle called critical mass.>>
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