Sunday Interview. "We must stop destroying biodiversity": Ecologist Franck Courchamp's call
Franck Courchamp, a CNRS research director, will take up the Biodiversity Chair at the Collège de France starting May 5. The multi-award-winning ecologist will hold lectures there on the colossal ecological and economic cost of the disappearance of plants and animals under the impact of human activities and climate change.
Your new comic book, The Legacy of the Dodo *, explains the threat that climate change and biodiversity loss pose to the human species. You begin by discussing the current state of global biodiversity. What is it?
"Not very glorious! We are not yet in the sixth mass extinction. Because a mass extinction is the loss of more than 75% of living species: that's what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. On the other hand, we are on a worse trajectory than the last five extinctions . It's going faster, more intensely. But we can still do things."
If we're not careful, we can push people into one of two extremes: denial or discouragement, which leads to...
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