Better do the counting fast.
We are in what the scientific debate is calling a mass extinction. The human age has become the new dinosaur age. And it doesn't look like those dour disney films with some big 0- saur rolling dry tongued in a dusty desert that was once lush tropical forest and pining for a lemonade. It's much more subtle. Look away from your computer for a moment. Look out the window (you have one?). It looks like this.
here's a pretty good link of links
http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html
but for more stuff try Google search "wilson extinction". Eduard O. Wilson is a harvard biologist in the middle of the academic debate against oil company scientists who say nothings wrong (anywhere, ever).
Personally I find it easier to confront mass extinction on a Friday rather than a Monday
but seriously though, what's up w/ this?
One reason this is happening is that a square mile of rain forest sometimes has several unique species that exist only in that square mile. And when this is cut down (which is happening to the jungles) than these species go extinct.
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Better do the counting fast. We are in what the scientific debate is calling a mass extinction. The human age has become the new dinosaur age. And it doesn't look like those dour disney films with some big 0- saur rolling dry tongued in a dusty desert that was once lush tropical forest and pining for a lemonade. It's much more subtle. Look away from your computer for a moment. Look out the window (you have one?). It looks like this. here's a pretty good link of links http://www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html but for more stuff try Google search "wilson extinction". Eduard O. Wilson is a harvard biologist in the middle of the academic debate against oil company scientists who say nothings wrong (anywhere, ever). Personally I find it easier to confront mass extinction on a Friday rather than a Monday but seriously though, what's up w/ this? One reason this is happening is that a square mile of rain forest sometimes has several unique species that exist only in that square mile. And when this is cut down (which is happening to the jungles) than these species go extinct.