The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth?
Does humanity have a future?
We are presently living in what conservation biologists refer to as the Holocene extinction event. This is the sixth global mass extinction event in last 439 million years.
The previous five extinction events wiped out between 50 to 95 percent of species each time. The most recent event was 65 million years ago at the end of the Jurassic period, a cataclysmic occurrence that exterminated the dinosaurs, the dominant group of species at of that period.
Evolution addresses the diminishment of biological diversity through speciation, but it takes at least ten million years to build up diversity of species to the level prior to a mass extinction event.
The world ten million years after the Jurassic crash was radically different than the world of the dinosaurs. The world after the Holocene extinction event, the one we are in now, will be as radically altered and most likely one of the species that will not survive the event will be the present dominant species – the human species.
Paul Watson
I think it is instructive to occasionally delve into the rantings of the more flamboyant of the eco-nuts. This guy pretty much takes the cake. When you get to the last third of the article, you will wonder if either Mr. Watson has watched The Matrix way too many times, or whether the Wachowski brothers may have pilfered from the guy:
I particularly liked this gem:
Yep, it really sucks that the camels and horses are extinct. And what the heck is a "wholly rhino?" Is that as opposed to a "partially rhino?" Does this guy even live on the same planet with rest of us?
Of course no leftist wingnut screed would be complete without a reference to racism:
So racism is being used as cover for destroying the environment. Right. Uh huh.
The scary thing is that people in positions of authority and responsibility will listen to screaming nut-cases like this. Then you and I get to pay for it.
We are presently living in what conservation biologists refer to as the Holocene extinction event. This is the sixth global mass extinction event in last 439 million years.
The previous five extinction events wiped out between 50 to 95 percent of species each time. The most recent event was 65 million years ago at the end of the Jurassic period, a cataclysmic occurrence that exterminated the dinosaurs, the dominant group of species at of that period.
Evolution addresses the diminishment of biological diversity through speciation, but it takes at least ten million years to build up diversity of species to the level prior to a mass extinction event.
The world ten million years after the Jurassic crash was radically different than the world of the dinosaurs. The world after the Holocene extinction event, the one we are in now, will be as radically altered and most likely one of the species that will not survive the event will be the present dominant species – the human species.
Paul Watson
I think it is instructive to occasionally delve into the rantings of the more flamboyant of the eco-nuts. This guy pretty much takes the cake. When you get to the last third of the article, you will wonder if either Mr. Watson has watched The Matrix way too many times, or whether the Wachowski brothers may have pilfered from the guy:
Humans are presently acting upon this body in the same manner as an invasive virus with the result that we are eroding the ecological immune system.
A virus kills its host and that is exactly what we are doing with our planet’s life support system. We are killing our host the planet Earth.
I particularly liked this gem:
Primitive hominids were well-organized, efficient, slaughter crews. As they advanced, the mammoth, sabre-toothed cats, cave bears, giant sloths, camels, horses, and wholly rhinos fell to their stone weapons and deliberately set fires. The extinction of all of these great mega-species is directly attributable to “primitive” human hunters.
Yep, it really sucks that the camels and horses are extinct. And what the heck is a "wholly rhino?" Is that as opposed to a "partially rhino?" Does this guy even live on the same planet with rest of us?
Of course no leftist wingnut screed would be complete without a reference to racism:
Today racism, cultural rights, and the right to exploit nature for commercial gain are the weapons used to defend gross over-exploitation of species and the destruction of natural habitats.
So racism is being used as cover for destroying the environment. Right. Uh huh.
The scary thing is that people in positions of authority and responsibility will listen to screaming nut-cases like this. Then you and I get to pay for it.
posted by Anonymous | 2:29 PM
1 Comments:
"Curing a body of cancer requires radical and invasive therapy, and therefore, curing the biosphere of the human virus will also require a radical and invasive approach."
Exactly my dear Watson....only it cannot be done in a generation, or even a millenia.
It will take "a radical and invasive therapy" administered by God over a period of MILLIONS of years. Not unlike the previous six treatments throughout the Earth's life--a life that spans billions of years long before and long after humankind's brief ride--which killed off the Dinosaurs, the Holocene mass extinction will serve as the aforementioned "treatment.")
And just like chemotherapy -which kills the good cells along with the bad-- the Holocene mass extinction will take many of the Earth's current living cells besides human beings.
However, I have faith in the Earth. I believe that it will replenish itself with new life, different life, but new life. And isn't that just as good?? Considering Watson's apparent utter hatred for humankind and total enamorment with all other life, you would think he'd be happy with what ever life form God will mold next!
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