In recognition of the importance of readers' contributions to the letters page, the newspaper each week selects a Letter of the Week, with a book prize courtesy of Penguin Random House. Wealth-seeking drives species' extinctionThank you you Anthony Harris for your Nature File article (ODT, 10.10.16), describing the effect of our capitalist economic model on the diminishing species with which we share this planet. This extinction has the same root cause as the sixth, a capitalist model that is driven by the need to produce monetary wealth before all other forms. Eliminating human input altogether in the production of monetary wealth is the capitalist gold standard to strive for. So no surprise that many of today's jobs are predicted to disappear and go extinct in the very near future.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 21, 2016 16:07 UTC