Yangtze river dolphins extinct.

[jojo]

The baiji, the Chinese white dolphin, is gone.

Is it not a terrible shame. Relentlessly, the human species is destroying all other species on this planet. The only planet that we know of, or have access to, and we are destroying it.

Only when the last tree and the last animal is gone will we realise that we can't eat money.

 

[locum76]

call it 'progress'.

 

[commandocal]

We are destroying this world, Makes me sick

 

[Matt Mallery]

There are too many humans on Earth. And all these people are consuming too much. But people just won't slow down on eitehr account.

 

[BOD]

The sad (for us) truth is that almost every form of life on the planet would be infinitely better off if we ceased to exist as a species

 

[Matt Mallery]

You are very right. I don't understand why so many humans feel the need to have such big families and buy so much crap. A family here in the USA just had their 17th child. This makes me very angry.

 

[jojo]

The thing is, I really believe that what we humans are doing is not sustainable in any shape or form. There are too many of us. We destroy without thought and it seems, without much care all the environments that support all life, including ours. We are fouling our only nest on a obscene scale. Governements on the whole appears no to give a monkey's, or pay just enough lip service to make sure they get re elected next time. There are people, and group of people out there who do care, but their voice are generally drowned in the ocean of relentless greed.

Too many of us, taking far too much. Tha's IMO a receipe for disaster.

 

[John Fenna]

Unfortunately the elected goverment do represent the majority of the people - they don't care about the future just what they can get here and now to make their own existance more luxurious and full of "things" that are bright and shiny if ultimately useless and detrimental to the world and its future.
I have to admit that I am not totally innocent and could probably cut back on my effect on the plannet, but then I have no children - my genes stop here, so what do I care about future generations!
Shame to waste such a nice planet though....
John

 

[philaw]

They last did a survey in 1998 and found 13 animals. It was coming, and I can't believe they lasted as long as they did.

You have to see the pollution over there to believe it. The yangtze is not a pretty sight, and neither are most other rivers. Some poison entire villages of people. one small one near where I lived in south china ran through the town and then the park. the park had 1,000 kinds of tree and should've been amazing, but reeked of human waste.