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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (67)	8/25/2000 1:44:41 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (3) of 10042

<<Name for me one human threat to nature's wilderness and wildlife that isn't replicated in one form or another by Mother Nature itself. >> The problem with man's activities when compared with nature is the Degree imo. Hunting by predators takes place in both nature and humans....... In nature large numbers of species are not hunted to the point of extinction over short periods of time . This does not allow new species to evolve. In nature large predators are not hunted at all.Their ability to reproduce does not allow for heavy hunting pressure. Most damaging of all human activities is causing loss of habitat. Wild lands being put into production for farm land, homes or industry. Yes some lands are lost through natural disasters but it's the scale and speed that counts. World wide pollution such as oil spills have devastated local ecosystems again on a scale that is unprecedented nature. Over fishing our oceans have driven many species of fish to the brink of if not actual extinction. Large areas around Japan have such reduced fish stocks that the Japanese must come to our shores to satisfy their huge appetite for fish. When in nature do you see the equivalent of multiple damns built on large numbers of rivers thus preventing species form their spawning grounds on any of these rivers. There of course have been extinctions in nature but again the scale and speed resulting from human activities which is not allowing new species to adapt and come into being replacing what has been lost. Before the white man came to America a squirrel could have traveled from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi without ever touching the ground. Yes I know the ice ages resulted in similar conditions. But these took place over long periods of time allowing wild life to adapt ......And they were eventually reversed .... The Amazonian rain forests that lasted over one hundred million years are being destroyed faster than evolution can replace them with more adaptive species Bottom line is that because of multiple human related causes at the same time we are seeing extinctions on a scale not seen since the demise of the Dinosaurs.

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