Posted on 04/07/2009 10:47:36 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Writing for Time, a magazine on the brink, science-challenged eco writer and earth-doom hysteric Bryan Walsh describes a Planet On The Brink:
It is the black-and-white indri, largest of the lemurs … the species — like many other lemurs, like many other animals in Madagascar, like so much of life on Earth — is endangered and dwindling fast.
Time‘s editors would once have cut this sort of demented exaggeration. I know; I used to work there. But quality editing is, as Walsh might say, endangered and dwindling fast. Oddly, this runs parallel to magazine sales. Walsh continues:
Through our growing numbers …
What? A few words ago all life was dwindling.
… our thirst for natural resources and, most of all, climate change — which, by one reckoning, could help carry off 20% to 30% of all species before the end of the century — we’re shaping an Earth that will be biologically impoverished. A 2008 assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature found that nearly 1 in 4 mammals worldwide was at risk for extinction, including endangered species like the famous Tasmanian devil.
Famous for dying of a unique transmissible facial cancer, not climate change, as Walsh might know if he read his own magazine (Lucky Devils?).
“Just about everything is going down,” says Simon Stuart, head of the IUCN’s species-survival commission. “And when I think about the impact of climate change, it really scares me.”
We’re all scared of something, I guess. It’s just some of us are scared of things slightly scarier, on any empirical scale, than weather requiring fewer layers of clothing.
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Paging Darwin! Paging Darwin! Please start the Evolution machine back up! Paging Darwin!
LOLOLOLOLOL those greeny heads.
Bryan Walsh: The dude is so hystrionic, he needs tampoms.
Devil facial tumor disease? Is that what Henry Waxman suffers from?
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