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Galapagos Islands Environment "In Danger"

Posted by kdawson on from the bye-finches-bye-iguanas dept.

cagrin writes "On Tuesday the UN's World Heritage Committee added the Galapagos Islands to the list of sites in danger from environmental threats or overuse. From the article: 'The Galapagos Islands, an Ecuadorian territory situated in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) from South America, helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and in 1978 was the first site placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.' Here is some background from Sea Shepherd on the insults facing the Galapagos."

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  1. Re:Great. by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, well, a ruined environment is bad for humans as well, and torture is bad no matter who the victim is. Death is an inevitability and I'm not telling you to stop eating meat but I still think we should stop torturing animals the way we do with our current meatmaking methods. ThereHasToBeABetterWay.

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  2. Re:Perception of Beauty by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What I'm saying is nothing near "language is reality". I'm just saying beauty is closer to language than it is reality, because it can't exist independent of perception--in other words, "language is language".

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  3. Re:This isn't science, it's politics by ZWithaPGGB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that how rapidly the whole thread degenerated to name calling, discussion about international aid in Africa, etc. etc. shows just how badly it devalued /., and the science topic in particular.

    There are plenty of places for policy wonks and activists to saturate the ether. /. has, until fairly recently, not been one of them.

    We have enough holy wars on tech without bringing in the "Sky is falling" vs "Pave the planet" debate that is raging in every other forum.

    Let's at least make sure that the topic of the articles is correct. If it's politics, put it there. If it was an article pointing to a multi-year species diversity and environmental survey, with trend analysis and correlation to visitors, human population, etc., it would have been science.