D HEALD wants to know what hope there is for rhinos, polar bears or tigers (Letters, August 9)?
That's obvious. None. Not with Homo sapiens at the top of the food chain.
Mankind has messed the weather up, hunted without mercy, trashed habitats and peddled barefaced lies to justify his rapacious and unsustainable appetites for everything from battery-operated rubbish to aphrodisiacs.
Only when man has been knocked off the top of the food chain will any other species have a ghost of a chance of long term survival.
There is, however, a glimmer of hope. Man is making a good job of bringing about his own demise.
Graham Horne,
Beech Avenue,
Bishopthorpe, York.
Updated: 10:32 Tuesday, August 13, 2002
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