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To: LLCF who wrote (40959)	5/23/2007 11:14:44 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78419

Whichever way you look at it, the Chinese people are not under threat. Despite all the pollution they are living longer, like people almost everywhere. Even if they control their population voluntarily the fact remains that most vertebrate species have already been wiped out in China. The same is true to a lesser extent of Europe. So to say that we'll be "the first to go" is just laughable (if you can just stop yourself from crying). How many times have I heard this bleating "the human species is going to destroy itself". Crap. The human species has (and most likely will continue on the same path) destroyed huge numbers of other species, but we are showing a survival success rivaled only (in the world of things visible to the naked eye) by ants, cockroaches, rats and mice, and the species that we grow for food or other reasons. We are extremely clever and adaptable. That's why we got where we are. We have out-competed everything else. In Africa humans are eating our closest living relatives to extinction. It isn't pleasant to think about, but that's the way we are. It would be nice to think that we've changed, but the evidence on rates of extinction doesn't permit it. Judging by the way people behave, I'd say only a tiny minority give a shit anyway.