Disappearing frogs

[Catherine]

You are both right. However what most people are not understanding is that more jobs and taxation levels and our selfish needs are linked to the well being of the planet. If we destabilize the planet and the climate we are going to have bigger issues that taxation levels. We might find ourselves looking for higher ground and wondering what we will eat. Frogs don't seem that important to most people, but we won't know until it is too late if we have destroyed a keystone species. It is like the children's game Jenga. The sticks are all piled one on top of another in a tower. You pull out sticks until the pile collapses. You just don't know which stick will bring the whole pile down if it is removed.

That is what we are doing by letting species disappear and destroying parts of ecosystems. Somewhere in all this is a key component and letting that disappear will bring changes we won't want and we won't be able to ignore.

There are good people working to save our ecology and I hope there are enough and I hope they have enough time.