MaNKIND faces extinction, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless the way we live can be transformed to stop mass consumption, climate change and destruction of wildlife. In his first speech as the new president of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested replacing the famous fight to save the panda with a new "cause c?l?bre" - to save the entire environment. Referring to himself as "an endangered species", he warned that the world was already in the "sixth extinction event", with species dying out at a much faster rate than at any time since the death of most of the dinosaurs 65million years ago. He said climate change, an issue that he has campaigned about for years, was not the only problem but was speeding up the "rapacious" destruction of natural resources such as water, land and food that humans needed to survive. The Prince said if the world carried on "business as usual" then the human race itself could be in danger. "We are, of course, witnessing what some people call the sixth great extinction event: the continued erosion of much of the Earth's vital biodiversity caused by a whole host of pressures, from the rising demand for land to the corrosive effects of all kinds of pollution," he said. "This is an important point that needs to be stressed more than it is, because its ultimate impact is plainly not at all clear to most people: without the biodiversity that is so threatened, we won't be able to survive ourselves." alluding to his "spiritual connection to na