Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

From a quarter to a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London.

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We have met the Passenger Pigeon and it is us.

Top of the food chain!

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There's a place for all God's creatures... Right next to the potatoes and gravy!

Well at least some people care about the environment.
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The wild population will exist in reverse proportion to the size of the human population.

First they took away the fisheries, and the Prophet Gore said, "It's due to global warming."

Of course, as all of us who are enlightened know, it has nothing to do with consumption.

And then there was insufficient oil to go around to produce energy.

And the Prophet Gore said, "It's due to global warming."

And then the Supreme Court of the populous state of California valdidated homosexual relationships as the equivalent of heterosexual relationships.

And the Prophet Gore said, "It's due to global warming."

And there were honor killings in India.

And the Prophet Gore said, "It's due to global warming."

And the Inuit began to get sunburned.

And the Prophet Gore said, "It's due to global warming."

Johnson,

You mock Al Gore's attempt to educate Americans about the dangers we are facing in the future.

You should be ashamed.

50 years ago people known as kooky environmentalists were beating the drums trying to get people to understand conservation, recycling and the dangers of pollution.

50 years ago people were talking about fossil fuels and how they are limited in supply.

And it was people like you who mocked them.

50 years from now people will likely be having similar conversations about the morons who didn't take the warnings seriously and turned everything regardless how lame into something political. Forget Al Gore.

Don't you care about your children, or your children's children?

Obviously not.

Not in my back (and front) yard but that is cause I chose to do something tangible about it. Dug up ugly, unproductive, useless grass and built flower beds planted with things that critters like (butterfly weed, bronze fennel, canna, sunflowers etc., etc.) Stopped using any kind of cide (pesticide, herbicide etc I figure anything with "cide" in its title has no business in a place meant to encourage life). Garden totally organically, feed the birdies on a regular basis. Let tree seedlings grow where they plant themselves (for the most part). You only have to sit on my patio for a few minutes to see a whole variety of wildlife, from birds, to lizards, tree frogs, butterflies, dragonflies etc., etc. I can't change the world, but I can change my little acre of it, and I am determined that NOTHING will suffer under my hand while I am steward of this little acre.

If Americans (and many others in the world) ripped out their front and back lawns and actually planted something useful instead of the most needy, useless plant in the world (ie lawn grass) which requires cutting, watering, fertilizing, weeding etc., it would make a huge difference, not only in water supplies (I am so sick of seeing sprinklers watering driveways), but it would cut down the amount of washed away fertilizer and herbicides which end up in the ground water and which then kill critters in creeks and streams. You would be amazed by the diversity of life that lives in an organically maintained garden.

The Pleistocene-Holocene Event: The Sixth Great Extinction

www.rewilding.org

The current, or sixth mass extinction is entirely human caused.

www.sourcewatch.org

Almost 440 million years ago, some 85 percent of marine animal species were wiped out in the earth's first known mass extinction. Roughly 367 million years ago, once again many species of fish and 70 percent of marine invertebrates perished in a major extinction event. Then about 245 million years ago, up to 95 percent of all animals--nearly the entire animal kingdom--were lost in what is thought to be the worst extinction in history.

Some 208 million years ago, another mass extinction took a toll primarily on sea creatures, but also some land animals. And 65 million years ago, three quarters of all species--including the dinosaurs--were eliminated.

Among the possible causes of these mass extinctions are volcanic eruptions, meteorites colliding with the earth, and a changing climate. After each extinction, it took upwards of 10 million years for biological richness to recover. Yet once a species is gone, it is gone forever.

The consensus among biologists is that we now are moving toward another mass extinction that could rival the past big five. This potential sixth great extinction is unique in that it is caused largely by the activities of a single species. It is the first mass extinction that humans will witness firsthand--and not just as innocent bystanders.

www.earth-policy.org

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
www.vhemt.org

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