From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlambert@...>
Date: 2009-04-20T15:52:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

"Philip Rhoades" wrote:
> Why is it funny? - I mostly agree with everything he said - the only 
> qualification is that I am skeptical that even a lot of people dropping 
> out will have any impact on the major problems that he mentions.  He is 
> right, Malthus was right.

It's funny because it's a sky-is-falling stupid rant.
Since you're a biologist, I'll just ask you on the first point.
Can you name one of the 200 species that became extinct today?  
Can you name any of the 6000 that became extinct this month?