On 31 Aug 2008, at 05:09, Matt Johnston wrote: > On 31 Aug 2008, at 01:16, Chuck Bennett wrote: >> >> "In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the >> polar bear population has grown from 850 in the mid-1980s to 2,100 >> today. >> > 2100 is a lot then? > > As opposed to nearly 7 billion humans.
And cockroaches probably exceed that number by a similar order of magnitude and no one is making noise about putting humans on the list. I don't think raw numbers alone are good for anything here. I think you'd need to take other factors into consideration. Things like historical population sizes and their change over time. If hunting limits were just increased, a first glance seems to imply that they aren't really all that endangered, or even threatened. Then again maybe those limits were changed for other reasons unrelated to relative over-population. -- -- arno s. hautala /-\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
