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  STONERS

  June 3, 2007, 3:35 p.m.

  A U.N. report has said human activities were wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and has urged the world to do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010.

  Global warming, blamed mainly on human use of fossil fuels, is widely expected to add to existing threats and wreck habitats like the Amazon rain forest.
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  0gramstransfat

  June 3, 2007, 5:26 p.m.

  I find it sad that human activities have caused the extinction and near-extinction of many races of animals and most people don't even care about that fact. If people really cared about the planet they live on, they would be more conscious of the things they do and the products they buy.
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  jdhatl

  June 4, 2007, 1:32 a.m.

  People really deep down do not care at all. They don't even care about themselves or the people around them. The true cause of misery in the world is Apathy and it's evil twin Boredom.
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  KingOfTruth

  June 4, 2007, 3:45 a.m.

  So if the estimates are correct, there have been 10 billion species since the earth started. Man has not killed many of them.
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  KingOfTruth

  June 4, 2007, 3:51 a.m.

  So the UN nutcase calls it the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs....let's see....the Earth has cycles of about 26 to 30 million years or 65 million years when there is a mass extinction and that coincides with the time the solar system crosses the plane of the milky way and it has been about 28 million years since that happened, maybe there is a cyclical reason for it ya think? Afterall 26 to 30 x 2 is close to 65 million years, so we are due...
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  0gramstransfat

  June 4, 2007, 4:48 a.m.

  Could very well be... this could have something to do with the climate change that is happening, too. But even if it is, us humans really need to clean up our activities. The amount of waste and pollution that we create is disgusting, toxic and deadly. We have the ability and technologies to do things more efficiently more responsibly, but it takes a desire to want to do so. And like I said earlier, you have to care about something to want to take the time to do things better for it.
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  buckncindykill

  June 4, 2007, 9:06 a.m.

  May I suggest we start eating the animals that are on the endangered list. After all, of all the animals that are consumed on a mass scale, how many of them are going extinct? Zero. Simple supply and demand. The higher the demand for these animals, the more of them we will reproduce.
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