I'm responding to your other claim further down that got downvoted into oblivion with no responses, and therefore no explanation. You are quite wrong, but you d

I'm responding to your other claim further down that got downvoted into oblivion with no responses, and therefore no explanation. You are quite wrong, but you deserve to know why. "It's basic school knowledge that any population will recover, as long as you have a couple organisms left who can reproduce and the environment itself hasn't fundamentally changed." I just recently took a biology class, and that is fundamentally not the case. One of the major causes of population collapse leading to extinction is lack of genetic diversity once a population is small. Once diversity is too low, even if conditions are relatively favorable, a population is much more vulnerable to disease or seemingly small changes to the environment. One of the ways biologists try to "rescue" populations these days is by introducing genetic diversity where possible.