Soon all the wood will be gone, and so will the income from timber. At the same time, orangutans and other forest plants and animals will survive for years to come. Sustainable welfare thus implies that people must protect this natural capital, against individuals who want to degrade it through consumptive use. Critics may say that extinction is nothing new, just look at the dinosaurs. Over the previous six hundred million years, extinctions have taken place at a rate of about one species every year.
Biologists can only make educated guess and they are chilling.
One estimate , just for the world's rainforests is 27,000 species extinguished every year. And we don't even know the value of what we may be losing. The Orangutan Crisis, The Destruction of Indonesia's Forests. Earthly Goods by Christopher Joyce. Please contact us .