[willy]

Just started to read further into this post and I am against whaling as being done by the Japanese. It just does not make sense.

But I do take exception to your statement above that humans are directly responsible for the extinction of 99% of anything.
Got to tell you, that sounds like the kind of tripe that is spewed by the Al Gore University Greenie carbon footprint types that has been used to indoctrinate kids in schools for decades now and is based on theories and conjecture of people with an agenda.
Just like global warming.
That being said, mankind has done a lot of bad things to our ecology, rainforest destruction is one big example. Pollution of our oceans and streams is another.
We have also, especially in this country done a great deal to clean up our act. We have also paid billions to help other nations get their act together thru direct treaties and thru the U.N
We can also do a lot more, but I am not going to go live in a cave and eat sprouts and kill off every other human born so that a species of tri-segmented sponge beetles can survive in a world that nature itself is constantly evolving species wise.