To: letters@guardian.co.uk
Re: The prize for "Best Species at Monitoring it's own Demise"
Date: Thursday 10 June 04

Dear Editor,

The article, "Spacecraft to check on climate",  in Wednesday's Guardian caused me to wonder whether, without realising it, we are not perhaps competing for the prize of "Best Species at Monitoring it's own Demise", with a good chance of earning for ourselves the dubious honour of producing the best monitored and documented self-extinction in the galaxy.