Tropical forests, wetlands and estuaries, and the coral reefs beneath the ocean's surface are the carriers of most of the life on the Earth.  Tropical forests are the home of half of all species, and they are, as of the beginning of 2012, one third gone.  Caught in the slash-and-burning and lumbering and fast-food grazing of current economies, the planet will be deforested for our grandchildren.

We are turning out the lights on the stage of the creation of life.  Life needs enough life to keep making life. Life-a-lujah!  Put it this way: Evolution, to work, needs its genetic pool.  No-one knows for sure how many species and in what numbers will survive as the centers of intense life are cut down.

We are witnessing the extinction of hundreds of thousands of species of life.  How can this be?  And, this is not a decision that has been open to much public discussion.  It is an apocalypse of accumulating silence.  No public leader would dare state that human beings will be the only life remaining, and yet that seems to be the plan.  The idea that people would be the only living thing - with I suppose pets, and parks preserved like museums…  Is that where we are heading? People simply don't realize how extreme this is:  the extinction rate has risen to 400 times above the average.  Life is dying.

Traditional empires, usually a mix of corporatists, militarists and missionaries, assumed they would exist without the independent life of their colonial subjects.  The tribal superiority was built into every act of carnage and profit-taking.  Now we have new kind of empire - the human species empire.  The underlying belief is that homo sapiens can exist alone.  There are in the USA famous figures who state publicly that there should be no constraints put on forest extraction. They quote from Genesis: "And God said, 'Let us make man...