...and twice as many wild animals 
http://news.discovery.com/animals/wildlife-numbers-cut-in-half-in-just-40-years-140930.htm
At this rate, I could live to see non-human animal life practically exterminated
...and twice as many wild animals
http://news.discovery.com/animals/wildlife-numbers-cut-in-half-in-just-40-years-140930.htm
At this rate, I could live to see non-human animal life practically exterminated
GameboyRMH wrote: ...and twice as many wild animals
Pendulums swing both ways. If we are at the far end... it's going to go the other way.
Just make sure we save the tasty ones
I blame Morgan Borlaug.
Seriously though have you ever read Make Room Make Room? The 60s must have been weird. They just didn't cover the impending doom 24/7.
Hopefully the US and other countries will continue to keep their nature reserves and national parks open. Killing them would be a terrible legacy to leave.
The0retical wrote: Hopefully the US and other countries will continue to keep their nature reserves and national parks open. Killing them would be a terrible legacy to leave.
"Don't brake for humans..."
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:GameboyRMH wrote: ...and twice as many wild animalsPendulums swing both ways. If we are at the far end... it's going to go the other way.
You are correct but I have a hard time believing we are anywhere close to that turning point. There is still far too much open land for us to consider turning things around yet. No food riots yet either.
It'll be the water that does us in first, if we avoid the city folks vs country folks war that is.
oldopelguy wrote: city folks vs country folks war
Bring it. 
Bobzilla wrote:oldopelguy wrote: city folks vs country folks warBring it.
You're on! Wait, which sides are we on????
ultraclyde wrote: No food riots yet either.
Maybe not in this part of the world.
oldopelguy wrote: It'll be the water that does us in first, if we avoid the city folks vs country folks war that is.
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
Still rooting for Ebola. Thin the herd!! 
KyAllroad wrote: Still rooting for Ebola. Thin the herd!!
That sounds like a really bad way to go. If I'm having to be culled I think I'd prefer to be nuked.
And in 1920, The state of CT was basically deforested with 0 deer or moose present.
haven't do my due diligence … so don't know if this is in fact true … but I've been told all my life that there are more deer in the US now than there were in the Revolutionary War days
According to some slightly outdated things I remember from a paper I wrote in college a few years back the problem with humans isn't our individual footprint (you could fit us ALL on Long Island with space to spare).
It's things like our rampant energy consumption and the farmland-per-person required to feed us all the McBurgers we consume.
When you look at the loss of arable land due to salinization and water shortages combined with the growth rate worldwide (think Fayetteville or Tacoma being dumped on the planet every single day) the long term prognosis starts to look a bit grim.
As has been stated by real estate people for a long time, they aren't making any more land.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:KyAllroad wrote: Still rooting for Ebola. Thin the herd!!That sounds like a really bad way to go. If I'm having to be culled I think I'd prefer to be nuked.
And if we're thinning the herd, I'd rather an Ebola version that targets stupid brains.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: And in 1920, The state of CT was basically deforested with 0 deer or moose present.
My grandfather lived his whole life in rural Ohio and didn't see a live deer until he was 26 years old. FACT. Anybody that lives in Ohio knows we've turned that around. Deer are a borderline nuisance animal know. That change was 100% manmade, and motivated by the desire to hunt them, as many forget.
In reply to LainfordExpress:
I've got a family of 5 living in my back yard. My parents get up to 15 of them at a time in their yard. At the same house I grew up in and never saw even one the whole time I lived there. Of course ongoing development is pushing them out of the forests and in to suburbia. But you are correct, at least in northeast Ohio they are becoming a real nuisance.
Nuisance indeed. I saw a deer kill on I-95 the other day... in Philadelphia... South Philadelphia (near the stadium complex)... Warehouses on one side... overseas docks on the other... and the roadway is elevated 20' off the ground... 
Solent green is coming but not until all the cats and dogs are gone first.
Duke wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:And if we're thinning the herd, I'd rather an Ebola version that targets stupid brains.KyAllroad wrote: Still rooting for Ebola. Thin the herd!!That sounds like a really bad way to go. If I'm having to be culled I think I'd prefer to be nuked.
Where can I donate to this research?
As for deer, they've been a nuisance in rural Indiana for years. Growing up, it was not uncommon to see herds of 20-30 grazing in the fields, or to have to wait for 15-20 to cross the road in front of you at their own pace, staring at you the entire time. We loved deer season. Not only did it thin them out, but it kept them off the roads and hidden a little more. And we're talking 200+lb deer. Not that little crap y'all have out west that would be a big rat here. Corn fed and lazy.
Ebola is here. CDC confirmed first victim in Dallas.
Nick_Comstock wrote: Ebola is here. CDC confirmed first victim in Dallas.
Well... that right there is an ASSLOAD of bad news.
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