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Earth's animal and plant species are vanishing at unprecedented rates, evidence that the planet is facing a tsunami of mass extinction, experts gathering for a global conservation conference next week have warned.
Whether through habitat loss, pollution, hunting, or indirectly by global warming, humans are squarely to blame for what may be the first major die-off in 65 million years, they say.
"The evidence is overwhelming - and we have really good data now - that what we are seeing is probably a mass extinction," the sixth in 450 million years, said Michael Hoffman, a mammal expert at IUCN who worked extensively on the Red List.
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He said he was just back from a field trip in the Kruger National Park of South Africa, where he witnessed awe-struck children seeing giraffes and elephants close-up for the first time.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by DisabledVet
It seems you have grabbed onto just two words from the entire article - "Global Warming". There are two things I would like to say about this:
1. I do not believe the article is directly blaming 'Global Warming'. Also, if you had have actually read what I wrote in my opening statement I surmised that this is not an unnatural extinction event.
2. You do not seem to understand the fight over Global Warming. Not many people say that it is not occurring, just whether it is humans causing it. I fall into the catagory where I believe Global Warming is occurring but I also believe it is part of Earth's natural cycle, not anthropogenic. I also believe, given this article is true, that the extinction is partially caused by this non-anthropogenic warming.
[edit on 3/10/2008 by Kryties]
The industrial model of livestock production is causing the worldwide destruction of animal diversity. At least one indigenous livestock breed becomes extinct each month as a result of overreliance on select breeds imported from the United States and Europe, according to the study, “The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources,” conducted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Since research for the report began in 1999, 2,000 local breeds have been identified as at risk.
Originally posted by DisabledVet
Moderator shouldn't this thread be moved to the "Jokes and funny things" section of ATS?
Originally posted by DisabledVet
Moderator shouldn't this thread be moved to the "Jokes and funny things" section of ATS?
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GLOBAL WARMING IS A BUNCH OF HOT AIR.
Originally posted by Siblin
There's nothing funny about this, DisabledVet. I invite you to read the article again. Mentally scratch out the phrase "global warming" in all of its appearances if you wish.
Species go extinct. Just like everything dies. But we're doing a nasty bit to our fellow creatures, there's no doubt about it.
Originally posted by Kryties
Could you please post the links to where you got this information DisabledVet as I do not seem to be finding any definitive number when I Google.
In what time frame have each of your examples been taken from? It seems to me that you are using two completely different timeframes to illustrate your example.
Originally posted by Kryties
reply to post by DisabledVet
OK I thought you were typing the NUMBER of extinct species, not the number of web pages that talk about each topic. Could you please explain why, just because one has more web pages about it than the other, why this is relevant at all to this topic?
Just because Species found has more web returns on it than extinct species does not mean that more newer species have been found. Your point makes no sense at all.
Originally posted by Satanlike god
It should be entirely obvious that many species are being exterminated by mankind. I remember as a young child going out with my father and catching a multiple variety of amphibians and reptiles during the course of a few hours. Now I am lucky to see less then a dozen of the hardier species of amphibians and reptiles during the course of an entire summer while deliberately searching for them with my very own son.
Would it have to do with the insane amount of insecticides, landscaping practices? I would personally have to say that is a large part of the problem, not to mention the decimation of these species habitat that they dwell, and breed in. Maybe the vast expanse of roadways cutting off their routes of travel. Did I mention the general hatred towards animals, even from members of the fellow human race, that is exerted daily by a large part of the "civilized" species that inhabit this planet?
In a college environment I regularly listen to fellow classmates brag to others about killing animals for fun. When I say anything in defense of any of these animals they brag about slaying, the majority of the people that overhear look at me like I am the abnormal person out of their group of classmates. It is a truly disgusting phenomenon to bear witness too. I sometimes wish that they were to be put through the torture they enjoy bragging about instead of their animal victims.
So much for a higher learning huh. I would have to say that these animals have more of a right to exist here then these people that abuse them for their own amusement.