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The report begins: "Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems."

Atlantic Bluefin, on the brink of extinction, 06/15/09. (photo: Greanpeace)

Comments

0 # Guest 2010-09-04 05:25

Thanks crownstarz. I now see that "Conservatism" as currently afflicting America is a form of addiction. Now, is there some way that we can tilt this extinction process to favor Republicans and thereby save the world?

+1 # Guest 2010-09-04 07:39

The reset button has been tripped, but there are delays before all the results are seen.

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 12:15

And of course it could be the human species that goes massively extinct. Creating the possibility that intelligent life will evolve on this planet.

+4 # doughty 2010-09-04 12:18

The Earth has experienced about five or six mass extinctions since multi-celled creatures evolved. The last was about 60 million years ago when a large hunk of interplanetary rubbish smacked the Yucatan and bid bye-bye to brontosaurus and her friends.

That was lucky for us, because it gave mammals a little lebensraum and set the table for our emergence as a species considerably less than a million years ago.

Now, we are repaying the favour.

We are not on the "verge of" anything! We are well on the way to producing the largest mass extinction since the cretaceous-teriary event.

Plainly "God" made a mistake giving us "dominion" over anything ... we were not up for the task!

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 13:21

One of the things which has irritated me for the last fifteen years are people who say things like: "We must save Mother Earth' blah, blah, blah. There is NOTHING wrong with the earth... we're just making it, at best, difficult for most species to survive - including ourselves.

Species survival has always been chaotic and with little rhythm. Human societies have also lived-and-died based upon changes in the environment: climate change, flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, and, of coarse, the occasional asteroid.

We are a blip on the radar and we, as a species, will not be around for a long time... besides, why is it we humans think we are the most intelligent species... because we have evolved to the point where we are killing our own species? To me, that doesn't present much 'intelligence.'

+3 # Guest 2010-09-04 16:37

Some (born again) Christians I know believe that this Earth was given to us (them) by God to use. ( up ) I don't know if all or any of them actually believe this, but it would explain why they don't have any intention of ever going "green".

+2 # Guest 2010-09-04 23:43

CORPORATIONS RUN AMERICA and NOW THE WORLD... And this will remain so as long as they own all the Media and are allowed to fund the elections of Governments.... Even if they run the entire Planet and all Life on Earth right into the Abyss...

0 # Guest 2010-09-06 11:38

Blame your neighborhood ass. The rule on what plants, color of your house, what you do or don't do.. all in the name of resell...

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