Ms Southey's articles usually elicit a more engaged response... the lack of commentary on her article today is actually telling and serves to make her point. The world's non-human species are in fact under significant threat, and while global warming is a component of that threat, the great majority of the immediate damage is being done through mechanisms of human activity that require far less complexity to address....if even a small amount of the grand energy and political bluster that is going into the fight against climate change, would be directed towards the fight against species extinction....we'd have a more than fighting chance of saving many of the world's most vulnerable animals on land and in the seas...

And from my standpoint, some of the lines in her piece are quite funny and deserving of a bit of a non partisan chuckling as well. .