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Wayne Gilchrest: Reclaiming my time, the study you are talking about, there have been studies in the rain forests of Latin America, there…

On the recordMarch 2, 1995
Reclaiming my time, the study you are talking about, there have been studies in the rain forests of Latin America, there have been studies in Indonesia, there have been studies all over the world, including the United States. The average is, now in the United States we would not have 10,000 species per every 1 million becoming extinct, but we have hundreds of species becoming extinct in the United States as a result of human impact. What do we do, tell all the people to move? No. But you manage the resources with what you have.
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Wayne Gilchrest
Maryland

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Discussing species extinction and resource management during a debate.

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