How can we save ourselves? As a species we are so destructive that just our rampant pollution and out of control deforestation causes extinction among many creatures. We are careless with our technology and ignore the consequences of our actions. We've taken a planet with forests, wetlands, game, fish and fowl and depleted their numbers to suit our purpose of civilization. We've drained wetlands for malls and subdivisions in celebration of suburbia. We've enslaved the wild rivers and brought them to heel in service to humanity. We've over fished the oceans and our remaining lakes and streams, not to mention the pollution seeping into these waters poisoning them before our very eyes. The environment is taking a beating trying to survive the onslaught of our progressive endeavors. Our progress is just starting. Here in the US we have had environmental degradation since the Machine of the Industrial Revolution. In China and other developing countries, this cycle is just getting revved up. Mankind's downward spiral as a species seems pretty straight forward. Treating the environment like a trash bin is not very good ethics, much less sustainability. You do not encourage life by trashing habitat and polluting food and water. Yet this is what this modern culture does. Somewhere, sometime these mistakes are going to come back to haunt us. The diversity of our planet depends on how much we as a species are willing to change our destructive ways for the sake of a healthy tomorrow. Nature is not a product to be sold for profit. Nature is life; without her , we die. This artificial economy is not an earth-friendly system. It's a disease of which money truly is the root of all evil and greed. Once money and greed enter your heart the evil of economics is unchained.