On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 3:55:41 AM UTC+11, [email protected] wrote: > > I think that if extinction rates was 10k, you would already see silent > spring round the globe.
WHA?? You "think that"? Based on what analysis? I imagine that you, like me, live in a metropolis where in the course of a day you are exposed to about three or four animal species: humans, your cat, and the sparrow that just flew past your window. So you look out your window and go, "Oh business as usual! Cats aren't extinct yet! Extinction rate looks pretty normal to me." But consider the Amazon, where there are many thousands of species of organism living in every tree. The Amazon was deforested in the early 2000s at a rate of 22,000 square kms a year. You may not have noticed the species extinctions from your office. But of course, you should "trust your eyes", not the alarmist proclamations of those evil greenies. Then consider that the global extinction rate is about 0.01% per annum (according to WWF, bunch of power-hungry communists that they are). If the number of species on the planet is at the upper end of estimates, then that means about 10,000 species a year are going extinct. That's about 10,000 times the background rate. The lower estimate puts it at about 1000x the background rate. And you're surprised by that? Done any travelling lately? The world is a parking lot. I saw the Astrolabe Reef in Fiji in the 80s when I was 14, and it was the most beautiful, spectacular, abundant thing I've ever seen. I saw it again two years ago and the change defied belief. People were swimming about going ooh aah, but they had no idea what it had been before. It was a paradise. I don't need to be told by an expert that bioversity is under massive threat. It's plain as day the moment I leave my little human monoculture. And then you come up with a line about 'dur fuhrer' (sic), comparing environmentalists to fascists. WTF? I'm not sure what planet you're living on, but wherever you are, you're fast asleep. > It smells of alarmism, to get people to march > to the fearless leaders tune. Its like the Marx brothers joke: who are > you going to believe, you own two eyes or me! The academics, I > suspect, are doing their hockey stick lie again, so things can roll > their way with jobs for life, lots of cash from dur fuhrer, and > appointments to jobs in the EPA, and such. Theres an inconsistency > with the dire observations predicted, and the public policy resonse of > the ruling class. To me, this is a tip off that fibs are being told and > exaggerations sold. But fear not, I am a mere particle in the sandstorm > of history. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris de Morsella <[email protected] <javascript:>> > To: everything-list <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
