If we destroying the planet and killing species can you explain this?

Question

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220127,00.html

Answer 1

kill 'em all, right? Who cares about human impact on the earth, right? BTW, I'm not going to open ANY link you provide, so why not just say what is on your mind? And go ahead and report that, you always do...

Answer 2

There are thousands and thousands of species of mammal, and not all of the Earth is exhaustively documented and populated.

Are you really trying to imply that because until now we've missed one species of little mouse, that means the planet must be in perfect health?

I'm sure there are many undiscovered species, although hardly any large ones at this point. I'm also sure that habitat is being destroyed and some species are going extinct.

I have no idea why you think the above two sentences are in conflict with each other.

Answer 3

Earth First. We will get the other planets later.

What I want eco-freaks, granola loving, freedom hating greens to explain to me is if man is causing the polar caps to melt, why are the Martian caps melting as well?

The eco freaks make the same mistake creationists make. See, creationists try to use the third law of thermodynamics to argue that there must have been design because or outside stimuli. Ergo, no outside stimuli leads to design. Yet they, like the tree huggers, forget about the SUN which is in its 1st 1/2 life cycle.

An ice age is geologically defined as ice on the planet. We have been in an ice age for quite awhile. And the Earth has not been this warm since the Renaissance......but everyone knows that Da Vinci rode around in a hummer.

Eco-freak pseudo science is as bogus as creationism, and neither is founded on the scientific method. Both rely on cor-relational data, and cor-relational data is not consistent with the scientific method.

Answer 4

It's not uncommon to find new species on islands. That is one of the striking observations Charles Darwin made on his voyage on the HMS Beagle- that many similar but slightly different creatures could be found on islands. The changes that he observed led him to theorize that beneficial mutation is passed along from parent to offspring, leading to the survival of more adapted organisms. It's all in The Origin of Species. Fascinating stuff.

Answer 5

What is there to explain?

We do destroy species and have driven several to extinction, while a *few* new ones have been discovered in remote areas in the last few months.

Come on now, just because they find a new fish, or bird or mouse does NOT mean there is no need for conservation on the planet, for gawd's sake!

Answer 6

That proves nothing. Just because a species that was long thought to be extinct was recently discovered doesn't mean that we aren't still f**king up the planet and leading to the extinction of various plant and animal species.

Answer 7

We are like a disease attacking the body we call Earth. Like any virus we multiply and make the host sick. If we don't mutate (wake up), we will end up killing earth and like any virus that can't develop a symbiotic relationship kills it's victim, as well as it's self.

Answer 8

just because we're killing off many species, doesn't mean that other species aren't still evolving, making new species. all animals are constantly evolving with each new generation, it's just that some are having a hard time keeping up with drastic environmental changes.

Answer 9

Thousands of species have gone extinct before man even got here. The ones who cannot adapt don't survive. Just the way God planned it.

Answer 10

Hahahaha.
A few mice survived the not so destroyed yet planet.

Duh