On 31 Aug 2008, at 13:35, Arno Hautala wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, so what's the population needed to survive a single population  
crash that could wipe out the species.

Jesus, fucking Republicans give me the goat.  Why can't they just be  
banned.
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