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Re: Brashears on Hanson



Jim wrote:

> I would submit that environmental problems are not sufficiently
> described by "some animals being inconvienced". Although knowledge of
> global biodiversity is sketchy, virtually all biologists are in
> agreement that mankind is causing what would be the sixth mass
> extinction the earth has experienced, and may cause a majority of the
> world's species to go extinct.

Most of the rest of Jim's post I entirely agree with, but this part cannot go unchallenged. We may be 
an important predator, and responsible for some of the changes that wipe out species, but we are by no 
means the only game in town. I think we are clearly in the middle of a die off of large proportions, 
but I do not think we are the prime cause. The question should be, why have the species stopped 
adapting to the changes that we and other factors are making in the environment? If a major species 
bloom were to happen, would we be able to survive? Perhaps we should be thankful that we are in an 
extinction period.





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