The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
On the flip side, it makes some people extremely wealthy. See, there’s an upside to everything!
For a very short time until the impoverishment of the planet hits them too.