Well, crap.

[rgraham666]

The Yangtze River dolphin is probably extinct.

Sigh.

 

[cloudy]

but yet, according to Roxanne, it's all good. Progress rules, don'tcha know.



http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lpohara/Pol%20116/Images/dolphin.jpg

 

[carsonshepherd]

Conservationists have seen this coming for a long time and China did nothing. Shame on them.

 

[Lisa Denton]

That is sad, which is only words and doesn't express my feelings.

But, kudos on the great thread title.

See ya, Lisa.

 

[rgraham666]

but yet, according to Roxanne, it's all good. Progress rules, don'tcha know.

I can't help but think that if this goes on we human beings are going to 'progress' ourselves out of a place to live.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I wish they had been able to leave earlier with the "So long, and thanks for all the fish" note they were supposed to leave.

 

[rgraham666]

At least the Vogons were quick.

 

[neonlyte]

I can't help but think that if this goes on we human beings are going to 'progress' ourselves out of a place to live.

There is room (now) in the Yangtze River...

It's a sad event worthy of a little reflection, though we are in no real position to point fingers at the Chinese, which was the gist of one news item I read.

 

[Guest]

I think George W is a Vogon..possibly many heads of state.

I wonder how his poetry is?

It is a shame. I don't worry for myself so much, but I show my kid as much as possible in nature and how incredible it is for that very reason.

Sweet picture, Cloudy.

 

[xssve]

Up to half the species on the planet are slated to become extinct by 2100 - given the accelerated degradation observed in other areas of the biosphere, coral extinction, polar melt, etc., this may be a generous estimate.