Like I said, the difference between the forecasts of past crackpots, and the current extinction event, is that the crackpots made crazy predictions with poor un

Like I said, the difference between the forecasts of past crackpots, and the current extinction event, is that the crackpots made crazy predictions with poor understanding of the world, whereas the extinction event is an observable fact As in 'lets see how many species whe have left - oo, there goes one... and there another'. Human beings have made a great impact to our environment and it saddens me an intelligent person such as you can bypass it with a shrug. Do you remember the slight problem we had with CFC compounds destroying the ozone layer in the 80's? Well, it was an observable fact - and it was fixed by placing controls. So, less people die of skin cancer which I think is nice. With your attitude we should have just let the CFC flow and tell australians not to worry so much about increasing cancer rates but rather just be cool and wear longer sleeves. I have great faith in humanitys spirit and skill, but we are now a species which operates on a planetary scale and we should acknowledge it. I would like to avoid ecological disasters before they become undoable ala easter islands.