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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (8814)	1/4/2007 7:43:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

My bet is that polar bears would do BETTER with oil and mineral exploration, not worse. One way or another, they'd get more food. A bit like manatees just love the warm water from nuclear power stations. Not everything people do is harmful to wildlife. Check out seagulls around a rubbish dump for example. If people kill a whole lot of white pointer sharks and cut the killer whale [aka orca] population down to size, the endangered hector's dolphin, for one, would do better. They are like lollipops for for large predators and I'm sure they aren't successful at escaping all the time. Killer whales are smart and white pointers don't need air and can come up from deep down. My theory is that whale beachings are not because of silly ideas such as messed up navigation, or suicidal leaders, or confusion. If I was living in the ocean, knowing that white pointers and killer whales are coming down the coast, I'd be inclined to try to hide right up close to the shore. With that level of fear, it would be easy to get stuck. In fact, I think I'd rather die of suffocation on the beach than be eaten alive, in whole or part, by a bunch of sadistic killer whales or horrible white pointers. I'd say "Come on family, we'll hide up here and hope they go away". I'd think, we can't fight them, so we have to run, but there's nowhere to run to. Omigod, what a horror. Mqurice