From: Christophe Mckeon <chromatophore@...>
Date: 2009-04-21T08:37:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth


> It's funny because it's a sky-is-falling stupid rant.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction_event
which by the way is the current extinction event.

"Most biologists believe that we are at this moment at the beginning of 
a tremendously accelerated anthropogenic mass extinction. E.O. Wilson of 
Harvard, in The Future of Life (2002), estimates that at current rates 
of human disruption of the biosphere, one-half of all species of life 
will be extinct by 2100. In 1998 the American Museum of Natural History 
conducted a poll of biologists that revealed that the vast majority of 
biologists believe that we are in the midst of an anthropogenic mass 
extinction. Numerous scientific studies since then—such as a 2004 report 
from Nature,[4] and those by the 10,000 scientists who contribute to the 
IUCN's annual Red List of threatened species—have only strengthened this 
consensus."

you can quibble about the exact figures if that's your bag, but that 
truly would be stupid.
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