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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 5, 2013 at 6:21pm

We are now burning in one year the equivalent of one million years’-worth of plankton deposits as fossil fuel, we are polluting the oceans with toxins and plastic, we are overfishing. … What we are doing is totally unnatural. No other creature has been able to influence the planet so much, our power is just massive. [emphasis mine]

I had no idea the rate of our fossil fuel burning to natural sequestration was that extreme. A million to one!

The Fabulous History Of Plankton And Why Our Survival Depends On It

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 2, 2013 at 7:18pm

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 21, 2012 at 11:35pm

Comment by TNT666 on December 19, 2012 at 11:04am

Countries not dominated by "big corporates and anoligarchies" are experiencing environmental degradation just as much as us. China and Russia are experiencing even worse environmental degradation than us. All we need to do is count other large animals to understand how ridiculously overpopulated we are. Count them.

Comment by Bipin on December 19, 2012 at 5:09am

Population is not the cause of the destruction of the nature and ecology, it is the unrestrained of the Big corporates and oligarchies who are destroying the environment by their unrestrained greed to maximizing profits, while leaving no stone unturned to spread misleading ideas and funding big institutions and media to spread such canard.

Comment by TNT666 on December 18, 2012 at 10:12pm

I'm not even speaking of H.sapiens "growth", I'm referring to our actual present population, and of the past 300 years. We need a drastic population drop.

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 18, 2012 at 9:40pm

The population growth issue is going to have to be addressed, one way or another. Religious people should know better than encourage large families and prevent contraception. Once again, religion proves to be part of the problem and not part of the solution. Even the fact well-meaning people take food and medicines to starving populations instead of challenging causes of poverty only delays the inevitable.

Comment by TNT666 on December 18, 2012 at 6:37pm

And as usual, people are still refusing that the no.1 agent threatening biodiversity is the population of Homo sapiens. When will this travesty end?

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 14, 2012 at 3:22pm

Donna, try this one http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/13-8

Published on Thursday, December 13, 2012 by Common Dreams

Study Identifies 15 Top Threats to Biodiversity

- Beth Brogan, staff writer

Comment by Donna Darko on December 14, 2012 at 4:28am

Unfortunately, Joan, it appears that one must pay in order to view that article.

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