Updated species extinction list signals ‘urgent action needed to save life on earth’

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  1. fmw

    fmw Well-Known Member

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    That is simply not true. Extinction happens with no help at all from humans. Give us credit for some of it but not all of it.
     
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    what evidence do you have to support your claim? how did i he’ll prove your point?

    most people that support conservation of wild life and private property support trump. it’s dems that support the commons which leads to drastic eco disasters.
     
  3. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    The height of arrogance is to act as if we have no effect. Individual humans can kill themselves quite effectively by just continuing the seemingly innocuous habit of smoking cigarets, why do you seem to think that millions of us can't effect the world quite strongly with our continual profligacy?
     
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    Trump rolled back safety regulations put in place after the 2010 explosion and oil spill
    Trump brought in David Bernhardt as Sec of Interior - with an extensive background in lobbying for oil and gas
    Trump, through Andrew Wheeler has undone Obama-era regulations on emissions from coal power plants and automobiles and has also dismissed a scientific review panel that advised the EPA on air pollution regulation and weakened the criminal enforcement arm of the agency.

    The list goes on and on....https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/
     
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    All things in nature try to preserve their lives, and others.

    Keep in mind that many, probably most, species that have "died" have actually just changed into something else.
    Humans are responsible for thousands of species extinctions. It's vastly outnumbered by the total number of extinctions over time but compared to other individual species it's enormous.
     
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    Love how Trump seems to creep into every liberal chicken little thread...
     
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  7. struth

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    cool we have a lot of oil and gas reserves on public lands and we need to work with private sector in safely harvesting those natural resources.

    obama had job killing unneeded regs in place

    who can forget BP, the largest eco disaster ever, and how obama completely mishandled it...it was tragic and didn’t have to be
     
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    trump apparently kills chickens..
     
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    sky is falling orange man bad!!!!!
     
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    trump dropped the apple on chicken little
     
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    Your Trump cheap shot doesn't change the fact that his opposition doesn't give a damn about the environment either. I live in Democrat land (Los Angeles) and while they claim to care, our buses are mostly empty, roads are full of single occupancy vehicles, people dump tons of weed killers and insecticide on their property so that the rain can wash it down to our oceans.

    They consume a diet that contributes to the problem and consume products that are maid where there is little or no regulation.

    No one in power gives a damn about the environment.

    What are you doing about it?
     
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    The evidence says you're wrong so...
     
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  13. Cosmo

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    The rapid loss of species we see today is much higher than the natural extinction rate.
     
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    Your post could be taken seriously -- but you ensure no one will take it seriously with your knee jerk virtue signaling comment about Trump.

    My advice to you. 1. Do not reproduce. 2. Do not drive a car. 3. Live in a 400 square foot tiny house. 4. Do not use air conditioning 5. Participate in political movements to discourage the immigration of people who reproduce like rabbits and come from places where they don't drive cars and use air conditioning to places like the US where they will drive cars and use air conditioning.

    Last but not least there is a process called natural selection that one learns about by taking a science class or two.

    Please tells us what sacrifices you are making to improve the environment?
     
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    I wish these damn house flies would go extinct!

    And our gators. Instead of more of them .
     
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    And stop buying goods from China!
     
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    Much nails it down, I guess.
     
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    That's just pure nonsense. We have no idea how many species went extinct, other than SWAGs, the past decade let alone why.
     
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    Humans = Nature

    Namaste
     
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    Damage = Nature
     
  22. Antiduopolist

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    Right. For various self-serving reasons. Okay. Okay.
     
  23. Antiduopolist

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    Nope.
    -Overture-
     
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    Ditto I assure you.

    We aren't part of nature anymore? :roflol:Humans = Nature
     
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    O the huge manatee! :eek:

    Extinction = The rule
     

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