Mother Jones - Comments for "188 More Species Deemed Near Extinction"

...seems WE are the "most invasive species"....

So I was reading about this today on globalgrind.com, my site for life!, and it really saddened me. We don't take enough care of our earth and surroundings. We treat the world around us like garbage and unfortunately not everyone is willing to make the little extra effort to change that. It takes more than just one person to make something like that happen, but here's hoping that things turn around real soon....

CFR,

Your first statement sounded quite reasonable. What happened after that?

CFR, you mean the same science that gave us the A-bomb, PCBs and VX nerve agent?
Without "the dregs", as you call your neighbors, who are the scientists going to use for their experiments?

Don't worry Misanthropic, the old standbys of plagues and pestilence will take care of the arrogant humans. AIDS(engineered by the CIA) strikes at the very act of reproduction. Science will save the elites and kill off the dregs.

Ames, You also appear to have missed the point that we are causing species to go extinct at about 1000 times the normal background rate of extinction. We have truly earned our place in the history of this planet as a catastrophe, the sixth major catastrophic event in fact. We are causing the sixth great extinction. It is already greater than the one that took out the non-avian dinosaurs 65.3 million years ago. Some are already saying that it is a worse extinction than the PT boundary 250 million years ago, the prior record holder.

Amesy, your pithy little statement must have seemed so sage to you. Yet it ignores the fact that as the theoretically most adaptive and intelligent of all species, we can choose to make sometimes simple changes to our lifestyles to ensure the safety and well-being of other species and the balance of the natural world. Any old dumb creature might bumble through the meadow, crushing smaller life along it's reckless path -is that good enough four our noble race?

Species have been coming and going since day one..