(h)eat up?

He's got a point.  James Burke's book, The Axmaker's Gift, says that only 15 species make up 90% of the food humans eat.  However, they're species whose evolution we're in control of through artificial selection so they'll survive global warming as well as we do.  A blight, on the other hand...

As for global warming and extinctions, its well known that relative to the other key mass extinctions, the last 100,000 years is up there in percentage of species lost.  But then again, we have come out of ice-age conditions so many creatures that specialized in those conditions were going to go anyways, regardless of us.  We may have done the finishing blow on mammoths, but they were dead anyways; their migration paths were being cut off by tree growth and new terrain conditions caused by the glacer melting already happening.

In the end, life on this planet will go on.  Whether humans or the species we depend on (or the species killed simply because they're in our way or were in the wrong place at the wrong time when a heating cycle changed) will is another question, but life will go on.  Evolution is far more powerful than anything we can throw at this planet.  Massive global warming is a common part of this cycle, as is massive cooling, as are mass extinctions.  Whether we're contributing to the situation (global warming) or contributing to the solution (avoiding a mass ice-age recurrance)  is an unknown, but the known is that its happened before and it will happen again, and we won't really be able to stop it.

Better we learn to adapt than become dependent on that which will change out from underneith us.

But, of course, anybody who believes God created this earth (and its species) solely for our benefit will simply die out as they lack the education needed to understand what is happening and why.

quote of the day

Since one man's judicial activism is another's sound interpretation, poopyhead would do just as well. -- Jacob Sollum