At 5:25 PM -0800 11/9/2002, Obi-Wan wrote: >On 11/9/02 2:40 PM, "Liliana Velazco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the >Cybertrough: > >> Millions of animal species have become extinct because of men, there >> was only one time when humans where close to extinction; ironically it >> wasn't because of animals. > >And that is an absolute fallacy. Norman Myers (a British scientist) >claimed in 1979 that the planet was losing 40,000 species every year at the >hands of us "evil" humans. He wrote a HUGE paper on it. Later he admitted >that he falsified all the numbers in his work to "get the issue of >extinction onto political agenda's." The US Fish and game coupled with the >Environmental Defense Fund Group (a Green Inc. group) and conducted their >own study in the 70's in response to the alarming news that this British >Scientist had reported, and the found that we were currently losing less >than 200 species a decade, and 99% of those species were insects. > >There are less than 1000 documented extinctions since 1600, out of a total >estimated 1.6 million species. Do the math. I am a liberal, but when the >"greens" lie for press or political coverage and everyone automatically buys >it I get pissed off.
And how many species go extinct in a decade all on their own? Extinction is a normal part of evolution. This is why I have a problem when I hear about some project being delayed or stopped because they find the Johnson Street Three Towed Left Handed Tree Newt is there and it is the only place it is found. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
