[Garth Tater]

Greedy bastards are turning the glades into a huge, snobby tract housing horror.

There will be nothing left but a puddle full of fairy shrimp and mosquito larvae, by the time they’re done.

I know, but it's going to happen. People are going spread into every single niche they can find. Don't get me wrong, I think what we are doing in very many places is very wrong but I just don't think there is any way to change what's happening. Sure, there are things we could do, but they won't be done because of a million reasons. Greed being one of the big ones but there are plenty more. I actually take comfort in your "life will find a way" statement because I think it means in the long run (well past our life times) mankind will find its harmonious place back in nature. Don't ask me how, I've got no clue, but I do know that what can't go on won't go on - so either we will find our place or we'll be gone.

[Salamander]

That’s a brutally realistic way of looking at things.

Every week, there’s someone screaming that one thing or another is on the verge of “going extinct”.

What ever happened to “adapt or die”?

Where are the die-hard Darwinists, then?

There’s been a bazillion extinctions throughout history and something else always fills the void.

Barring a massive comet strike, it’ll all work out, one way or the other.

:)