| Killiana1a said: Ain't nothing but political hyperbole to fund environmentalism causes. If environmentalism was a world-wide movement, then the individual members would not need to call on governments to take action because citizens in every country would be able to fund the cause and take action themselves. Instead, we have Bjorn Lomberg telling us what we need to do. I am waiting when one of these environmentalists will bust into my bathroom when I am taking a doody and steal my toilet paper roll because it is killing Mother Earth. |
It really isn't hyperbole. In fact this article is probably guilty of gross understatement. The current extinction rate isn't running at 10-100 times, it seems to be running closer to 10,000 times background.
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Edenic_Period
Also these aren't crazy environmentalists who bust into labs and free animals like you make them out to be. They're scientists studying the rate of extinction and the current rate definitely qualifies this as an extinction event, not one of the major events yet but certainly significant.
