The passenger pigeon. The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate animal species hundreds of times faster than they would otherwise disappear.
Oh for god’s sake there’s nothing “racist” in the comment you responded to, and their point is absolutely correct: we’ve been told for generations that this would happen and indigenous people just get ignored and marginalised.