To the editor: Each species alive at this time is the results of a 4.5-billion-year journey. Of all of the billions of species to ever exist on Earth, we’re the one one that would ever perceive the profound significance of this miracle. But it’s estimated by at least one study that people have annihilated 83% of mammals in our time. Over the span of fifty years, we worn out an estimated 3 billion to 5 billion passenger pigeons with our detached greed. Every species is a thread that holds the world collectively, and we’re ripping the material aside.
The 1972 bipartisan Endangered Species Act merely offers our fellow species a combating probability for survival (“The Endangered Species Act faces its own existential threat,” Might 14). Defending essential habitats gives important environments for meals, shelter and breeding. It maintains the stability wanted for all of life on Earth, together with ours.
Patty Donnelly, Chino Hills
