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Re:WWF! (Score:5, Funny)
by EugeneK (50783)
on Sunday July 07, @05:51PM (#3839080)
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WWF has now confirmed : Earth Is Dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Earth community when the WWF confirmed that the Earth will be uninhabitable by 2050. Coming on the heels of a recent National Academy of Sciences report that the average temperature has risen yet again, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The Earth is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Galaxy-Wide species diversity test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Earth's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Earth faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Earth because Earth is dying. Things are looking very bad for Earth. As many of us are already aware, Earth continues to lose species. Extinction flows like a river of blood.
The rainforest habitats are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their area. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time species black rhino and tiger only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Earth is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Earth leader Bush states that there are 7000 species left. How many mammals are there? Let's see. The number of mammal versus amphibian posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 mammal species. Rainforest reptile posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of amphibian posts. Therefore there are about 700 rainforest reptiles. A recent article put mammals at about 80 percent of the species market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 mammal species. This is consistent with the number of mammal Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the rainforests, abysmal slash and burn agriculture, the drug war and so on, Columbian rainforests went out of business and was taken over by Brazilian rainforests who sell another troubled rainforests to international logging interests. Now Thai forests are also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Earth has steadily declined in wilderness and species. Earth is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Earth is to survive at all it will be among human dilettante dabblers. Earth continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Earth is dead.
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Re:WWF! by EugeneK (Score:5)
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Mod Parent Up (+1, Informative) (Score:0)
by CableModemSniper (556285)  <cblsnipr@optonline.net>
on Sunday July 07, @05:59PM (#3839115)
(http://thegospeloflogan.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday July 23, @07:42PM)
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Mod Parent Up
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Re:WWF! (Score:1)
by linzeal (197905) <koat.rhizome@org>
on Sunday July 07, @06:26PM (#3839238)
(http://www.anarchsforlife.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 06, @11:58AM)
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mod parent up you dirty-caveman hippies !!!
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Re:WWF! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday July 07, @08:25PM (#3839705)
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No, some of us chose not to blow ourselves up amidst crowds of children.
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MOD UP--BSD ISNT DYING! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday July 07, @06:32PM (#3839273)
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lamefilterlamefilter lame lame lame. 20 secs. 15...10...5.......
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Re:WWF! (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday July 07, @07:53PM (#3839598)
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Modded down? That was fucking hilarious, and on topic even! Mod the above "BSD is dying" troll-in-sheep's-clothing up into the stratosphere of +5, Funny where it belongs.
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