It’s a truism like no other that the large majority of us value life, and as an extension of this — being a measure of life—biodiversity.
That human beings, therefore, are to blame for a massive and ongoing decrease in biodiversity is the most incriminating piece of evidence to reveal just how badly out of sync human institutions are with their values, and, of course, how out of sync they are with life itself.
The Gaia hypothesis indicates that one way or another humans will stop being the cause of this decrease in biodiversity. Whether that means the end of our civilisation or its adaptation remains to be seen.
One disturbing practice of humans, at least since we turned to agriculture, has been to seek our and destroy other species that compete with us for food and territory. The following video of Joshua Klein at TED touches on this topic in an inspiring way.
