I for one am glad that it's not human-kind being blamed for this extinction ... and unless we somehow caused the volcano to erupt (drilling for oil?), I think y

I for one am glad that it's not human-kind being blamed for this extinction ... and unless we somehow caused the volcano to erupt (drilling for oil?), I think you'd have a hard time proving causation. The bigger issue I have with most extinction stories is that they totally ignore the fact that extinctions happened (and happen) regularly. As an ecologist, I would hate to be the cause of another species demise, but should I intervene in natural processes to save a species that is dying out naturally?