Desdemona Despair Desdemona defines "the end of the world" as the destruction of the biosphere in which humans evolved. Conversely, “saving the world” would mean preserving at least some of the original biosphere. The human impulse for acquisitiveness drives the accelerating destruction. As the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) observed, "our planet is constantly losing its incredible diversity of life, largely due to our destructive actions to satisfy our growing appetite for resources." The "Dalai Lama of the Amazon", Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, says, "large-scale mining seems like a big monster that wants to destroy the earth, to destroy nature." In some parts of the world, anybody who stands in the way of humanity's insatiable appetite for resources is in mortal danger.
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