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On 5/1/2009 7:28 AM, somebody wrote:
> "Chambers"<ben### [at] pacificwebguy com> wrote in message
> news:49fa9ae4$1@news.povray.org...
>
>> If a species has been dying out for several hundred years, and we're
>> here to witness the end, it's one thing.
>>
>> If a flourishing species suddenly drops dead one day, that's completely
>> different.
>
> Why?
Because, in the past, so called "extinction events" didn't happen that
quickly.
I'm not saying we're the cause, I'm only saying that these extinctions
are different (which they are - at least, the timescale is different).
And, if the events now are different in some fundamental way from the
events of the past, we should pay attention to them. If we don't, we
risk be surprised by our own, sudden, extinction event.
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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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