The other 99% have apparently gone extinct. (The estimate is actually closer to 100% than 99%.) This I just learned form Joshua Schuster’s talk on “Digital extinction.”
The earth’s biological diversity is also the highest it’s ever been. We are living between the achievement (of speciation to tremendous levels of flourishing) and the projection (that up to half of species will go extinct in the next hundred years, massive extinction being underway). Celebrate the moment.
Appropriate thoughts for Cinco de Mayo (and belatedly for May Day and Beltane).
Over half of the species going extinct.. depressing article… Happy cinco de mayo.