"For example, 80% of the worlds medicine comes from biological species or their habitats."
"TAXOL is vanishing due to loss of biodiversity....TAXOL is one of the most promising treatments for ovarian and breast cancer."
"Some scientist speculate that we are losing approximately 100 species per year"
She does make an appeal to the reader to the readers "So what?" question and "Who cares?" question. Three examples are listed above. Telling us how many species are going extinct gives us a "So what". The two connections to medicine show us that our health and the health of our neighbors is the "Who cares", we care whether we realize it or not.
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