Greedy humans in a race to extinction

THE extinction of the Yangtse dolphin heralds biodiversity’s final demise as a result of human overpopulation, over-exploitation and greed.

That, in a modern world, a cetacean can become extinct shows humanity’s unwillingness to correct itself, its lifestyle and its avarice.

If ever the Irish Examiner had a more inappropriate headline it was recently to suggest we had a potential underpopulation crisis.