From an article byKate Ravilious
National Geographic News
July 3, 2007
Posted on 01/29/2008 11:51:20 PM PST by Exton1
9 July, 2007
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Adventurers exploring a cave on an island in the Indian Ocean have discovered the most complete and well-preserved dodo skeleton ever found, scientists reported yesterday.
Researchers say the find would likely yield the first useful samples of the extinct, flightless bird’s DNA.
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Cows rule. We get beef, milk, and butter from them. Those three things with beer make vegetables edible!
No, they were eliminated by a combination of hunting, disease, and lack of food to live on. Of the three, none of those could have been helped by human interaction. Or would you have prefered that Man stayed in it’s tribes, achieving a neutral population growth for thousands of years?You don't *get it*. I'm not arguing from an environmentalists perspective, my view --if it can be characterized-- is "inevitablist".
No the facts don’t support it. Humanity has been driving species to extinction for millenia(know what the megafauna were?). Humanity is wiping out species at a record pace and that is indisputable.
I see you have drunk the kool aid.............human beings are bad and must be removed.You're projecting. The central problem is that, deep down, most "conservatives" actually agree with liberals that extinctions are "bad". They aren't.
I’m not sure who’s taking a naive view, but I am sure that using terms like “alarming rate” on a subject involving 100’s of millions of species in the entire duration of this plante’s existance is a little far fetched.
“Un precedented” seems a little “blame humanity first” too.
And a few individual fisherman aren’t the one’s I’m talkng about. The people who buy the fish are the ones who keep them in business. Those are companies with a real vested interest to keep such things going- much more so than about a quick buck right now. It makes more economic sense to limit and drive up the price of commodities than it does to destroy the source via over cultivation.
Did you catch that History Channel special last week entitled "Life After People?" Interesting.
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