On 31 Aug 2008, at 08:40, Matt Johnston wrote: > 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.
I have no idea. Do you? If they grew from 850 to 2100 in ~20 years I doubt it's something like 50 or even 200. > Jesus, fucking Republicans give me the goat. Why can't they just be > banned. Look, just because it's called nutters doesn't mean you HAVE to go off the deep end. -- -- 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/
