Items in rec.birds

Subject:Re: Last Japanese Crested Ibis Dies
Date:Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:44:59 -0500
From:"rick etter" <retterstop@bright.net>
Newsgroups:alt.animals,alt.animals.rights.promotion,rec.animals.wildlife,rec.birds,talk.politics.animals

"jriegle" <jriegle@att.net> wrote in message
news:yqQob.23461$Ec1.2107845@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> "usual suspect" <who@where.how> wrote in message
> news:m8Pob.20999$4k5.1404@twister.austin.rr.com...
> > jriegle wrote:
> > > It is a tragedy when a species is lost due to the actions of man.
> >
> > What about species which disappear without man's actions?
>
> Sad, but that is nature. This bird is extinct from the wild because of the
> actions of man.
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Which you do nothing to slow or eliminate.  In fact, your western consumer
oriented lifestyle, demanding more and more
resources to be used does more harm than many 100s or 1000s of the poor
teeming masses you rant about so frivolously
on usenet.



>
> > > The human world population should have never been allowed to
> > > exceed 1 billion. Now it surpasses 6 billion.
> >
> > Ahh, written like a truly benighted follower of Reverend Malthus.
> >
> Reverend who? Many species have been lost or are endangered due to man's
> expansion. Habitat loss, pollution, sport hunting, etc. are the reasons.
> Even man's action of introducing a foreign species into another ecosystem
> has decimated the indigenous population. The human population explosion in
> the last century was enormous and continues. Nearly every aspect of the
> ecosystem has come under influence by man.
>
> Also, I not saying that certain race, religion or wealth of population
> should be eliminated. I'm saying that it is unfortunate that our numbers
are
> what they are now.
>
> Ahhh who cares anyway right? In several billions of years the sun will go
> supernova and vaporize the inner most planets anyway. Go on plundering...
> John
>
>