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White Dolphin Functionally Extict
An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years."
More than 995% of all zoological diversity, in total, ever, is extinct. Why do we need to sweat it when the White Dolphin, or the Black Rhino, or the African Elephant or the Manatee or the Tiger all disappear?
So what?
Natural selection can be a harsh mistress and if you can't keep up you shouldn't be suprised when something kills every last one of you. The entire world is one big killing machine. Tornados, floods, deer ticks with lyme disease, falling rocks, little globulous things you can't even see, all of it trying its damndest to kill you every day you exist. Because it wants to occupy the space you take up. Or maybe your flesh tastes good. Or your rotting corpse can be used to fertilize fields.
The world isn't fueled by rainbows and kitty purrs. Sometimes stuff dies. That is the way it is. You can either believe that invisible cloud people created everything just specifically for humans so that you can jam everything that will fit into your mouth hole with a clear conscience, or you can believe Darwin and realize that in order for Darwin to be right, stuff that isn't as well adapted has to die. Maybe some actions taken by people, or squirrels, or decaying nucleii will hasten things along for some other organism but unless those organisms learn to fight back it is curtains for them and more for us. The more sensitive among us might think this is a bad thing but it frees up resources for the fittest to become even fitter.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Anyone ever heard of comedic timing?
Yeah, well, this isn't it.
Do we really care so little for our environment that all we can do in a case like this is make jokes? Makes it kind of hard to hold up any sort of hope for the human race. Very sad really.
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So the earth is alive, now? Maia or Gaia or whatever the hell?
More hippie bullshit. Let's stick to science.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Wooh, man. Woah. I gotta sit down because that is comedy in liquid form right there..
... fuck.
Well, if you read the news, you're fully aware that a lot of "science" is later revealed to be bullshit.
I wouldn't be so smug if I were you.
Nothing interesting to say...MUST...NOT...REPLY...ohtheheckwithit.
It's why the tigers are going to be extinct too, because the Chinese want to eat dried tiger cocks, and tiger bones and other stupidity. Same reason it is hard to find any bears in China and hire people to poach American bears for their gall bladders. etc. etc. etc. More mysticism and stupidity. Maybe they didn't eat the dolphins into extinction, but I wouldn't doubt it (even if it were against the law).
There are a lot of smart people in China (with that many people there is bound to be a few). But there are a lot of stupid people too who will do anything to eat some piece of an animal because they still believe old wives tales. And some of the more intelligent are also some of those stupid people. It even happens in the Chinese community in America.
Holy fuck are you a complete moron.
Yep, more proof that despite the best efforts of part of the human race, we WILL be the end of ourselves...Personally I just hope we off ourselves before we take everything else on this planet along with us.
Come on by and I'll personally show you some 'natural selection', if you know what I mean.
Glad to see you are proud about and desire to use responsibly your (unwarranted) sentience. Fucking waste of gray matter that one.
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Yeah, I hate those guys. However,
One less species of mammal = one less potential source of rabies.
One less species of mammal = less CO2 released into the atmosphere.
One less species of mammal = less heat generated into the oceans, and less thermal expansion.
(Damn Dirty Dolphins!)
I didn't say the joke itself was inappropriate, I specifically targeted the timing of said joke.
Shall I tell that joke about your mom while we're all huddled around her grave at her funeral? Or would it be more appropriate for a private conversation at the reception after?
Why I'm responding to someone that calls themselves Lord though...you'd think I'd learn.
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Ahh, so respecting your mother, a single solitary person, is more important than respecting an entire species?
Good to know what kind of morality we're working with here.
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Environmentalists are terrorists. Major scientists like Bjorn Lomborg have confirmed and prooven that species extinction is a myth perpetrated by the radical left.
It could be said that they were the pathetic species not being able to adapt to changes in their environment fast enough. I say good riddance.
Wah fucking wah. You're (not 'your' btw, oh and try learning to use proper capitalization and punctuation) the cockhead. There's always suffering. Life IS suffering. Do people NOT suffer now in China? Hell yes they do. Always have. Me, I'd rather have one more interesting species alive in the world than a few million more idiot humans. Fuck people, and fuck you, jizzbag.
If we just go along dumping shit in rivers and overfishing the shit out of everything, we're going to kill OURSELVES off anyway. More suffering. So why postpone it at the cost of an entire species? Doing the right thing now is always best for everyone. Putting money before the environment is suicidal. For OUR species.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
Look children! An asshole! See how it loathes everything that's NOT itself? Those things nearly killed all life on earth with pollution, war and greed. Good thing they're nearly extinct.
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
Although we dont like to admit it, human beings are a virus to planet earth. We suck the resources, multiple then spread and destroy anything in our path.
I know it eats at you everyday, but because you naturally treasure life, you keep telling yourself over and over thats it not true that your not responsible for the damage of earth.. but i dont see you making a difference. Infact i dont think anyone in slashdot really cares enough to stop what we were created to do. Maybe this is how viruses feel aswell. I know myself that ill still be eating tuna.
Sure you say that you brought yourself a hybrid car to cut down on emissions, but your still poluting the earth with your share of eletricty, garbage, the products you buy, the water you use..
infact your PC is made up of 3 times its weight in wasted chemicals.
Its not a shame the earth has to end this way, but it is a shame that we are the cause, and that includes you!