Mass Extinction Comming!... Again!

[Killiana1a]

Rath said:

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.

Makes sense as the human population is growing, the habitat for animals gets smaller and smaller until extinction occurs. Even worse is the phenomenon happening to male frogs where pollutants in the air are making them infertile. Frog species are dying out at an unprecedented rate.

The problem is many of these scientists come from 1st world countries such as the USA, Canada, Japan and countries in Western Europe. To the aspiring farmer in Brazil or Indonesia, the arguments from the scientists come across as telling them and their families to stay in poverty because rich, American and European tourists want to spend a few weeks there on vacation.

The fight for environmentalism is multi-faceted. Public opinion for the most part is in favor of curbing practices that promote mass extinction of symbolic species such as eagles, wolves, lions, tigers, elephants and on. The harder battle is getting citizens in emerging economies to change their lifestyle in order to accomodate the world for all of God's creatures.