Posted on 08/11/2005 11:02:22 AM PDT by ZULU
"Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says"
There is a typo here Humans should read BUSH to Blame
They were so greedy and primitive back then. They used to order slabs of ribs so huge that they would literally tip their cars over.
They couldn't believe they ate the whole thing!
Or rather, the slots evolved into...Democrats!
Damn that Fred Flintstone and his rock-wheeled SUV!!!
Wow, and here I thought if it weren't for us humans, the earth would go merrily along in pristine perfection for all eternity.
Without a video I don't think I'll "choose" to believe this story.
What is not a theory is that scientists have too much time on their hands coming up with more and more theories. Until they present facts their theories belong in comic books.
Wasn't Helen Thomas a young girl back then?
One that engulfed North American and Canada 11,000 years ago and took 7000 more years to get to Cuba and Hispaniola.
Well, I suppose it could have been a flood of molasses.
Giant ground sloth - it's what's for dinner!
The only humans in the Americas at that time were Indians, uh, sorry, Siberian-Americans, who we all know lived in peace and harmony with their surroundings and were perfect stewards of the environment. (Of course they did cultivate a little of that awful weed for smoking - tobacco.)
They couldn't possibly have caused thye extinction of any species. It has to be evil European white males who are responsible for this travesty. (Maybe the Vikings got here earlier than anybody thought.)
Wooly Mammoth... the "other white meat".
Talk about slothful behavior!!!
No wonder the Vulcans didn't think we were ready for space exploration and the Klingons and Romulans hated us so much.
Needless to say, the professional acitivsts among them hate this theory. See, they were a peaceful people living in harmony with their environment, before Whitey came.
The fact is, the biggest ecological disaster for Australia was the arrival of the aborigines; the biggest for New Zealand was the arrival of the Maoris; the biggest for Hawaii the arrival of the Native Hawaiians. By the time Europeans arrived here and to those places, there wasn't a whole lot left to despoil.
> The fact is, the biggest ecological disaster for
> Australia ... New Zealand ... Hawaii ...
And we won't even bring up Easter Island prior to whitey.
Don't. It's ugly. You've read 'Collapse'?
Exactly.
I demand restitution from the American Indians for killing the Mastadon!
. . . around the high plains of West Texas/Panhandle (e.g., near Canyon is one example), you can still find huge piles of bones where the Indians would repeatedly drive entire herds of buffalo off the cliffs . . .
Such a sensitive group of folks.
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