Posted on 01/25/2006 7:01:47 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm
WASHINGTON, DC-- June 26, 1997--The Amazon Basin, home to largest rainforest in the world, is known for its astounding variety of plants and animals. But the rainforest may be also be home to an even more overwhelming variety of previously unknown bacteria and this diversity, just as with plants and animals, may be jeopardized by deforestation, says a report in the July issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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I'll stand by my numbers from the Texas website for landmass but won't quibble with the difference, it just irritates me when someone tells me we're over crowded. ;-)
I had never though about it that way, I'll use that the next time I am arguing with my lib co-workers who on just about evry issue, have no perspective.
I might run a little rough as I've been using it for target practice for quite a few years!!!
Fear not! God is not mocked!! Famine, wars, pestilence and disease are simple tools used to limit unsustainable population growth. Who is scaring you out of your mind like that? You need new and more rational sources of information before you become suicidal!!!
You've been snookered by too much liberal hogwash on TV and in newspapers then. There is no world population problem. Only those who live in big cities would think that. Large cities and some countries in the world have localized population issues, yes. But those are mostly economic and policy problems, when you really look into it. Drive across Texas or Wyoming -- where I live -- some time. There's lots of empty space on this planet!
The entire population of the world would fit comfortably in the state of Texas, in single-family houses.
Second, the total amount of forest land in the world is higher now than it was 100 years ago. The whole "save the Amazon" thing is much ado about nothing.
What? Do you want the only species that uses computers to die out? Do you agree with those liberals that think the US Constitution should be a suicide pact, keeping the executive branch from intercepting foreign intelligence?
What's prompting you to post this stuff besides homosapienphobia, or some such???
Whatever you do, don't tell Stings wife.
She spent years fundraising for this junk science. Once she found out the entire Amazon theory was a lie she dropped it like a hot rock.
I say, torch the entire Amazon jungle to the ground. I am tired of it being used an excuse by enviro-lunatics to make our (U.S. citizens) lifes harder to live through enviromental regulations.
Obviously, it's cause by the star we live next to and nothing else!!!
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