Saving Orangutans

I WAS SHOCKED when I heard on the radio an advertisement which said that the world's orangutan population was dwindling, by something horrible like twenty per day, and that drastic effert will be required to save the species. As I recall the ad made an appeal for donations, and gave the info needed to donate. I hope they receive massive assistance. Never before have I ever been anywhere near this shocked to hear about another endangered species. Why? Because, quite simply, this is the first time a primate of any sort has ever become endangered, threatened with extinction, and, we humans are primates. More specifically, we are chimpanzees. For those who have difficulty understanding and accepting this, ask any high school biology teacher, or any college science professor of any sort, or check out a book titled "The Third Chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond. Chimps and humans are closer genetically, ninety eight percent identical, than chimps and gorillas are to each other. I have stood next to cages containg chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas at zoos, and each time it was perfectly obviously to me that I was looking at and interacting with creatures very much like myself, my close relatives, cousins, if you will. The intelligence of them is monifest, merely by looking in their eyes. Engaging them in conversation by using gentures and body language is usually very easy, and fun. Human behavior needs to change drasticallly, immediately, in terms of burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees and forests and polluting the land and water, and so forth, all those things the liberal mob rants so incessantly about. And thank God for teh liberal mob, and may it defeat and destroy the conservative mob on the democratic field of battle, in the arena of ideas. Climate change denial, still very much with us, is purely a conservative position, and is more idiotic by the hour. The Earth's forests and pristine wilderness wilderness must be restored. At least half the planet must be wilderness preserve off limits to humans, and if this sounds extreme to anyone, think again. future human material prosperity and economic growth must be organized, planned, cooperative, controlled, with a reasonable distribution of wealthand standard of living for all and no negative impact on the Earth's ecosystem. Obvioiusly, we've a long wayy to go before achieving all that, but, make no mistake, it must be achieved. This chaotic, barbaric, dog eat dog neo-liberal economic system which has doinated the world until now is what has brought us to where we are now: in desperate trouble, threatened with our own self imposed extinction. So. Save the orangutans! Donate today! Or, if not that, at least convert to sanity, if you are still a climate change denier, and accept reality, and, instead of hindering our efforts and chances, start to help us.