Revealed: first mammal species wiped out by human-induced climate change

[Plucketeer]

10. Heh - so when the next assteroid whacks our rock

and a few of us are sitting in some Mars outpost and watching as our home base is scrubbed clean, you'll say what? Something like: "Geez, you'd think Mother Nature would've had a bit more compassion!"

This planet and the life that clings to it have been changing since their conception. We CAN NOT enact and maintain a hold on it - we just can't. We can't turn the whole globe into a zoo. Our development of a "superior" brain is no more significant a development than wings or gills or venom - the brain just fills another niche that was ripe for filling. What we've DONE with this specialization may well prove the undoing of alot of the living things we hold so dear. But the specialization WILL continue to be a catalyst - and THAT we can't stop. Whether we manage to effect some sort of specieal stasis or an Armageddon remains to be seen. But change (evolution) WILL march on and we WILL be a factor in it. How much of a factor - only time will tell. If say - Yellowstone erupts as they're predicting it will, we won't be much of a factor beyond that point.