  | Distinguished Member with 14,969 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: -71.45091, 42.27841 | | Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
Article here.
-- Tom |  | Senior Member with 730 posts. | | | | .... it matters to me 
...heck I'm worried about polar bears, caribou, BEES... sparrows, Mulder.... You name it I'm worried. Quote: |
one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one in three amphibians, one in three conifers and other gymnosperms are at risk of extinction.
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our present course will lead to the extinction of half of all plant and animal species by 2100.
| That's staggering!!!!!
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| | | Senior Member with 730 posts. | | | | bumping this, as I think this is very important... people should really pay attention to information like this... THIS is the war we should all be fighting... but on no... wars on terror get the attention... shows you actually were peoples priorities are...
If all these animals and other living things go extinct, you won't have a pot to pee in... never mind some stupid money wasting war machines used to kill people rather than save the world, it's Earth, it's plants and Animals...
...human beings are a selfish lot.
Right, I'm going back out into my garden to play... so naa 
__________________ "Learn how to quote properly, fer crissakes!! The thing worse than crap is second hand crap!" ~ Jim  |  | Distinguished Member with 15,725 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Currently in NO. California Experience: Beginner | | I think it's a great idea for a thread too,  , i will try to contribute to it... |  | Distinguished Member with 32,355 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pacific NW Experience: I thimk therefore I yam | | As the population of this planet increases...humans are encroaching on every habitat...not to mention our consumption rate. To the animals of this planet other than ourselves
we are like a disease that is spreading.
I am saddend by the fact that animals are becoming exinct at a staggering rate, victims of an over populated planet of humans
it's only natural that it comes back to bite us all in the arse
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We have to do something to protect Nature .. without the natural balance there wil lbe trouble ahead | | | Distinguished Member with 32,355 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pacific NW Experience: I thimk therefore I yam | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Blackmirror I hope kittens are not on the list ..
We have to do something to protect Nature .. without the natural balance there wil lbe trouble ahead |
It's this chicken today - feathers tomorrow mentality | | | Distinguished Member with 15,725 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Currently in NO. California Experience: Beginner | | | | | | Distinguished Member with 32,355 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pacific NW Experience: I thimk therefore I yam | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Gabriel |
It's all sad...that the great animals of this big blue marble will pay for us occupying this planet | | | Distinguished Member with 32,355 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pacific NW Experience: I thimk therefore I yam |
03-May-2007, 03:38 PM
#10 | see...people matter most..that's the argument I hear...lowly animals...who cares? Unable to defend themselves from the onslaught of our civilization spreading out over this planet with a handful of people that really care and intend to do something about it. We the deep thinking species must come up with real viable solutions, before this chicken today - fethers tomorrow mentality comes back at us with devistating results. All animals matter and the insects as well. We share the planet with them and they as well have a right to exist.
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03-May-2007, 05:25 PM
#11 | George is ready for the next 'Ice Age.' 
There was a report in the newspaper today, that botanists here in the UK have assembled a so called 'Bilion Seed Store.' The ideabeing that they will be able to contribute to replanting, after some so called 'global catastrophe.'
Should we be doing the same with DNA from Birds, Fish, and Mammals ? |  | Distinguished Member with 5,580 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Canada Experience: Intermediate |
03-May-2007, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by lotuseclat79 By the end of the century half of all species will be extinct. Does that matter?
Article here.
-- Tom | Yes, it certainly does. | | | Distinguished Member with 15,725 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Currently in NO. California Experience: Beginner |
03-May-2007, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by RSM123
Should we be doing the same with DNA from Birds, Fish, and Mammals ?
| Here is a Google search for species gene banks...thay are doing this with both plants and animals all over the globe. Check it out. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...es&btnG=Search
And here is a project Lunar Gene Back http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=564616&page=1
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03-May-2007, 10:42 PM
#14 | I can't imagine a world without animals. Unfortunately, a lot of people could care less! |  | Community Moderator with 25,697 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Eugene, Oregon Experience: Still kickin' |
03-May-2007, 11:34 PM
#15 | Will zoos end up being the only place for other animals? | |
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