Could Greed be the Cause of Our Extinction?

In Vandana Shiva's reading, I found that biodiversity is more important to the world of life than people think. There are, what scientist believes, up to 100 million species on the Earth but only 1.7 million have actually been classified. All of these species have equal importance to balance the world's equilibrium.
"Biodiversity has been threatened by the globalization of an industrial culture based on reductionist knowledge, mechanistic technologies, and the commodification of resources (pg. 38)." There are two root problems to the extinction of the species. The first arises from the empty-earth paradigm of colonization, which assumes that ecosystems are empty if no taken over by Western industrial man or his clones. The second is described as the monoculture of the mind: the idea that the world is or should be uniform and one-dimensional, that diversity is either disease or deficiency, and monocultures are necessary for the production of more food and economic benefits.
Human greed and desire for profit are the primary cause of most of the extinctions in the world. On average, there are 2,700 species that go extinct every year, which in 1,000 times the natural rate. Third world countries depend on these species to live. They farm with these species and provide food for the rest of the world. We are killing off the species that we will need to live just to make an extra dollar. Each organism serves a purpose to keep everything running smoothly. The lesson from biodiversity is co-operation, not competition. If we can learn to live with these species, the world will continue to function operatively, and we will decrease future issues.