"Top-level study of rainforests' secrets"

Dear Sir/Madam,

Reading in today's Guardian that scientists are busy exploring the canopy of tropical rain forests, thereby discovering countless new species, I couldn't help thinking that in view of the fact that we will soon have completely destroyed these habitats, it is really only adding insult and mockery to the injury and injustice we are doing to coming generations (our own descendents - any who survive), who will be able to read about and see video of a wonderfully diverse biosphere that took millions of years to develop, which they too should have been heirs to, but which we, with our stupidity and primitive materialism, destroyed.

What will they think of us? Will they admire and feel grateful to us, as we do (or should do) towards our forebears? I don't think so, some how.

Roger Hicks

www.spaceship-earth.org