this is the case now imagine hundreds of millions of years our ancestors and other organisms in the ecosystem have been used these resplendent for us and now we've deforested much of the planet and the deforestation continues at an incredible clip we've now entered 6x the sixth greatest extinction event on the life of this planet and we're losing about 30,000 species per year of 8.3 million species on this planet that means that a hundred years we'll lose more than 30% of the biodiversity on this planet this is this