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Biodiversity : what's the big deal?

August 30, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff So asks James McWilliams in a recent oped in the New York Times' Freakonomics blog.  McWilliams, a professor at Texas State University and a professed environmentalist, makes the point that, because we don't know what is the "baseline" for prehistoric numbers of species on Earth, we cannot say ...