You’re next!
‘Frozen Ark’ aims to preserve endangered species – Science – www.smh.com.au I guess this idea is better than freezing the heads of American CEO’s, although it’s not as funny conceptually..
Meanwhile, contrast the above article with the BBC version of the article here. In this article the claim is made that we are the middle of a species die-off equaivalent to the day the asteroid nearly blew up the planet or the Krakatoa kill-off. There is no documentation or attribution for this, of course. This is just the current litany floating around.
Scientists believe animals may be disappearing from our planet at a very high rate. Some even refer to this plunge in biodiversity as the Earth’s “sixth mass extinction”.
Scientists? As in ALL scientists? Run for the hills!
That said! Read this page and tell me what you think. The “Sixth Mass extinction” is like a bandwagon movement. Incredible. Looks like another excuse to blame the USA for global warming. This is quite a website for the worried.
I tried reading a few of the articles linked from that page – and in summary – the problem is us. Big surprise. 🙂
“90%” of big fish are gone from the oceans, due to over-fishing. We should be able to reverse that, if we reduce fishing – but then people complain they can’t eat the fish they want, anf fisherman complain when their way of life is threatened.
Land animals are losing habitat and food-supplies to encroachment by people, and their industries – or are just being eaten by us, in large numbers.
Everyone seems to want to protect the wildlife, and expand “habitat” – until they realise that means limiting our own expansion. Never a very popular topic.
In 12-step programs, they’ve learned that recovery often can’t start until the person has “crashed”, and “hit bottom”. Then, all the excuses and rationalizations are exposed for what they are – pain-avoidance mechanisms.
I’m afraid we won’t be able to get a concensus on this – globally – until we have a “crash”. Till then, it will be business as usual.