article_snippet.sent: Stewart Brand, president of the Long Now Foundation and editor of the Whole Earth Catalogue, believes the focus on widespread extinctions may actually be harmful.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Writer Stewart Brand argues it is highly unlikely that Earth is facing a sixth mass extinction as many threatened species are recovering.
article_snippet.sent: Writer Stewart Brand views are likely to be controversial with conservationists who have been warning that human activities risk killing off a large proportion of species on Earth in an event to rival the extinction of the dinosaurs.
article_snippet.sent: Writer Stewart Brand said: 'Viewing every conservation issue through the lens of extinction threat is simplistic and usually irrelevant. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Brand said that even with climate change, it is unlikely that all of the 23,214 species currently deemed as threatened with extinction would die out.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Brand said Mr Brand did not believe climate change is likely to have much impact on the loss of wildlife as many species will evolve and adapt to cope.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Brand said: 'My own prediction is that climate change will be deemed intolerable for humans long before it speeds up extinction rates, and even if radical steps have to be taken to head it off, radical steps will be taken.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Writer Stewart Brand says warnings that the world is facing a new mass extinction may lead to a fatalistic attitude that will do more harm than good .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Writer Stewart Brand believes climate change is unlikely to have the feared impact on wildlife .
  