Extinction, how dying species force us to reconsider our place on earth

Abstract

As a consequence of modern industrialization wild, untouched nature is degrading, with the current mass extinction event as a poignant result. Whilst humanity is broadly acknowledged the cause of the extinction wave, people express sadness and mourn for the vanishing species and the general demise of nature. From the act of mourning an urge to repair the wrongdoing of the past emerges, leading people to protect nature and its species. But while certain species may be hold from extinction, we may fail in preventing further losses of nature’s profound, but poorly acknowledged values. Given the fact that we mourn for extinctions and nature, and our valuation of nature this loss is, paradoxically, what we do not want.