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. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
