Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

I am. I wrote "We Need Zero Sum Pollution Now" a few years ago, exactly for this reason. And Pollution, of air, water and FOOD does indeed threaten. But, man's "expansion," while certainly threatening to some species (That darn old snail darter, or the desert insect so highly valued) are just flash points for environmentalists, not real substance in the discussion. The problem is, who makes the judgement call? Once someone, anyone, can say with real or imagined certainty "that species has no value, or whatever hasppens, happens, since nature does the same thing hundreds, even thouands of times a week," does that make man a more threatening possiblity than Nature? Riddle me that!

However, rather than treating each and every extinction possibility as a catastrophic event, I would hope that reasonable people could reach common ground; ground rules would help! Maybe each and every event is the "slippery slope" environmentalists fear...maybe not.
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Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

In Maryland and elsewhere, environmentalists fight tooth and nail to prevent wind farms and high power electric grid towers, claiming they kill millions of birds (no mention of higher numbers of insects as well).

Yet people from the same groups want wind power as "greener" than fossil fuels. AND, competing groups within the environmental community have similar conflicts when discussing preserving the snail darter while fighting a hydro project, a very clean power project. The point is that I can agree on controling pollution (See "We need Zero Sum Pollution Now") through transparent regulation and licensing, while disagreeing with environmental radicals who oppose any development or improvement in the name of preserving environmental purity and opportunity, when Nature laughs at their hubris by destroying hundreds of species every week.
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Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event

I think it's worthwhile to consider that many millions of species have gon extinct as Naturte continues the process of experimentation through evolution. It is in this contect that one also condisers that probably 100 or more species of insect, and mammal, less of fishes, go extint each and every day. A new species starts with the evolved offspring of a pairing of some species and adoption thereby of mutated genes, reflected in the design of the offspring. If few or none of the offspring survive to propagate and multiply...extinction. This could happen many, many times each day and year, and we would never know. I think environmentalists sometimes confuse the necessary mission of protecting the environment with interfering with the evolutionary process.
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