A new United Nations report tells us that human activity is basically slaughtering the wildlife out there, killing off the species upon which our own existence is reliant. We should stop doing that, and I assume that you’re with me, because we’d like a world for our grandchildren to live in so we probably should stop doing that. The thing is, to do so we should stop doing pretty much every thing it is that this report and environmentalists tell us to do.

There is a problem with their basic contention that we’re about to drive 1 million species to extinction. How many species are there anyway? Are we talking about some substantial portion, or some tiny percentage?