news.bbc.co.uk — Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year in one of the "great extinction episodes" in Earth's history.
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culbedaMay 16, 2008
So we're always APPROACHING zero percent, rather than reaching it. Well I feel better now.
slantyeyedMay 16, 2008
People go up in arms about endangered species, but tens of thousands of people dead in Burma or China or Darfur and nobody cares crap.
digitalfilm43May 16, 2008
Survival of the fittest.
yubproMay 16, 2008
Following that logic, why cure anybody who gets sick? Sorry if I'm too much of an optimist, but just because it may cause certain social problems is no reason not to look for improvement. Given a commitment to technological improvement, within the next century or two we could foreseeable master decay of the human body and at the same time find technologies that allow us to much more efficiently use the space we have here on earth, and beyond...Yes there are problems that will need to be overcome, but there are solutions. It's a question of whether or not society is willing to work together to find them.
barackalypseMay 16, 2008
But I thought we LIKED evolution. Adapt or die. History is littered with millions of species that failed, why should we care that this continues today? Perhaps these animals should learn a lesson from tasty ones like cows, pigs, and chickens. Those animals will never be extinct because people love to eat them.
mweatherMay 17, 2008
" What do they propose, killing anything past the second child?"What do you propose, mass starvation and wars over basic resources?
ratexlaMay 17, 2008
It... just seems a bit unnecessary.Our existence and other species = possible!?Our non-existence and other species = possible...Our existence and ruined ecosystem = not possible.
ratexlaMay 17, 2008
Hi. You need other species.