More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8338880.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8338880.stm
Species' extinction threat grows
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Biggest tragedy is that the vast majority of these is happening because of the greed of one species.
That of course is true but even worse is that these kind of things are like the "canary in a coal mine" and should be seen as warnings and dangers for us as well.
Start collecting DNA from every endangered species that way when we've perfected cloning we can fix our mistakes.
Great idea:thumbsup:
Too bad dumb humans aren't on that list...
Or ignorance.
Furthermore I would argue a great percentage of the destruction has been caused by damming and hydro-electric power in the 20th century. It's one of the most "green" power generation technologies and one of the worst for biological habitats.
The Chinese continue to not care on the matter, along with select, other nations. Otherwise you'd see the US building a crapload, instead of only relying on its legacy plants.
Ironically there are so many "green" ideas that are so destructive to the environment. The massive increase in mercury deposits due to household use has been the result of mercury in trace amounts of the 21st century generation of extremely inexpensive compact florescent bulbs.
We never seem to stop being ignorant in one form or another. With every new technology that is allegedly "better," we're just changing where the harm is done.
As one scientist recently put it, fission power may not be the most ideal, but it has a small, easily contained by-product and no other, negative impact on the environment -- unlike everything else (including fabrication of solar panels for the equivalent power generation).
if humans continue polluting the environment we could be the next dominoe of species to fall
Somewhere along the lines of this!
I wonder if anyone got this pissed when the dinosaurs went extinct. 
I hope someone doing something to protect these endangered species.
