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To: combjelly who wrote (561039)4/15/2010 5:35:12 PM
From: bentway1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578127
 
I feel somewhat "religious" about loss of species and habitat. Species are lost all the time, sometimes wholesale, as in a meteor strike. But we aren't a meteor. We can control what we do.

I see every species as a total miracle of selection and evolution. Every individual has ancestors that survived from the first creature, millions of years ago to today, defeating all that would have ended it. The creatures ancestors lived through the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaur. They had the right stuff! We're ONE of them.

..and we may well kill them and/or leave them nowhere to live.



To: combjelly who wrote (561039)4/15/2010 6:21:26 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578127
 
99% of all the species that ever existed on the earth are extinct.



To: combjelly who wrote (561039)4/16/2010 1:21:42 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578127
 
Current estimates have about 1/3 of all species going extinct in the next 100 years. And there is no reason to suspect that it would stop then.

Please provide a couple of non partisan links.

Taro


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