Why The Concern Over Species Going Extinct?

It’s Been Happening For Eons

Several times a year, we read about this or that species threatened with extinction — or actually becoming extinct.

I’ve long wondered who so many learned people, who should know better, worry themselves over something that happened repeatedly since the dawn of time.

So what, in the big picture, does it matter if the ‘mealy grasshopper’ (to make up a species) ceases to exist? As it supposedly exists on some other species’ diet in the food chain, is its…