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Who will protect the endangered human species?
Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
I read the May 21 article, “A day to celebrate endangered plants and species,” and thought it was interesting.
However, after reading it, I realized the reporter forgot one entrant, that being the human race. Although I love animals — I have a couple of cats and a dog — I didn’t see them on the list, either.
In Nevada, we are supposed to protect the desert tortoise, the pup fish and the list goes on. Well, as I’ve written before, I’d like to know who’s going to protect the other endangered species — the human one.
It might get to the point where we can’t use the desert for solar power because of the desert tortoise, or wind power because windmills might be a threat to our feathered friends, or a water pipeline because of other species.
And, as I’ve mentioned previously, we might not be able to have electricity generated from wind power, coal or oil, and our water supply is dwindling fast. All the other species will survive, but what about the human species?
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You're joking. Right?
If the human species is endangered, it's only because we're doing it to ourselves. The 6 billion of us will soon be 9 billion. We're cutting down the forests, decimating the oceans, and fowling the air. When we're gone, the planet will recover. But not till then.
We live in a culture of selfishness.
I, Me, Mine.
Drill, Chop, Burn, use, Dig, Bury.
CONSUME.
Everything.
It's ours.
Humans, for the most part, seem hell bent on self-destruction. We're like a science experiment gone horribly wrong.
People are lazy. They eat with plastic forks off of paper dishes or paper wrappers while washing it down with cola from a plastic cup. Sometimes they even throw the used cup and plate and fork in a barrel but not always.
Their babies are farting in plastic pants and they even throw them on the ground, (the pants not the babies).
The whole culture has changed, for the worse.
There was a line in the movie Matrix, comparing humans to a virus. Using all the resources in an area, destroying it, then moving on to another host.
My buddy Robert prefers using the words Borg and assimilation when talking about human consumption.
Vernon Pechous writes:
"In Nevada, we are supposed to protect the desert tortoise, the pup fish and the list goes on. Well, as I've written before, I'd like to know who's going to protect the other endangered species -- the human one."
Humans are not endangered. As another writer said, there are more than 6 billion and the number is rapidly increasing.
Cats and dogs are not endangered. There are billions.
Meanwhile, there are about 350 mountain gorillas left. All of our nearest relatives--chimps, gorillas, bonobos, and orangutans are predicted to go extinct in the wild within the next 10 years. The lion population has plumetted by 80% in the last 50 years. Ditto for rhinos. Ditto for thousands and thousands of species.
If you were to interview them, they would politely point out to the 6 billion, two-legged apes who keep destroying more and more of their habitat as their population numbers continue to soar.
Click on the link and scroll down.
I think you'll get the picture.
http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.h...
AP
Consume all you want. Why do you want to save anything? In another fifty years this whole country will be mexicans anyway.
RebelRon offers this helpful suggestion to all of the endangered species on the planet:
"Why do you want to save anything? In another fifty years this whole country will be mexicans anyway."
Funny, I guess a North American Indian could have said the same, watching the line of wagons heading across the plains, stuffed with white people and hell-bent to settle this "uninhabited land."
The one Indian looked at the other and said:
"Why do you want to save anything? In another fifty years this whole country will be palefaces anyway."
Thanks for sharing that gem.
AP
Vernon Pechous:
I think you need to go take a few environmental courses. When humans become extinct, it will be our own doing. Caused by overpopulating the planet (as it currently is) by humans.
You can't blame the American white women for overpopulating. 50 million abortions ruined this country.
RebelRon adds this:
"50 million [white] abortions ruined this country."
We're actually talking about the planet, Ron. About how so many species are going extinct because human population is out of control--no matter what color of human.
A few more abortions would definitely help--white, black, yellow, blue, whatever.
AP
Is this AmericanPatriot the hall monitor around here? He feels compelled to respond to everyone else's post. What a colossal ego he has. He should change his name to Mr Last Word.
Sharp.....
Someone has to monitor republicans who act like
spoiled little kids.
Good work, AP.
Sharp writes:
"What a colossal ego he has"
Actually, when you feel compelled to name call and put other people down, it says something about your own ego.
Sounds like yours needs a lot of shoring up.
AP
teamster..I am not a Republican. I imagine that I've voted for more Democrats than you have.
AP..I pulled your pedigree. You constantly critique other posters. A very rude habit I might add. You have all the manners of a goat.
Humanity may infact go extinct. It seems the dinosaurs had a huge population spike then went missing. The right though is too arrogant to perhaps see this as God's will. I try to respect his creation by driving a small car. I don't own a herd of plastic animals to make myself think I'm master of his creation- I'm just part of it and I think my main function in this world is to take care of it. I prefer the things by the original author (God) than the synthetic inventions which sometimes destroy the natural world . Are we to completely run out of the natural things ?
aren't we suppose to critique other posters ?thats what political debate is all about. Lets squash debate and become a corporate state or have we ? Sharp you are a Republican !
hooker...This is not a forum for one poster to critique another. It is a forum to post YOUR views without antagonizing me.
Sharp kindly writes:
"You have all the manners of a goat."
Like I said, you can't help your name calling.
Maybe a little therapy would help?
AP
We are too many and too dumb to survive for long. Look at our track record. see Gmag!
We are the dodo birds that our grannies talked about.
Gobble and goof. Raid and plunder. Explode and die.
The fact is that our unborn and growing male children and of course, the righteous ones among their female counterparts are those that are seriously being endangered. Unfortunately, majority of us have not taken cognizance of this "thrash the boys {males}" mentality that actually started since early 1920s when the Witchcraft Activating Women (WAW) began to get more and more involved in witchcraft's activities. About the same time was when our nations began to jettison what they were originally blessed with for that which they have to import. Anyway, visit www.protectendangeredhumanspecies.com for more details.