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Environmentalists say $404 million dollars needed for species protection
The Center for North American Herpetology ^
| Monday, October 03, 2005
| CNAH
Posted on 10/04/2005 8:40:21 AM PDT by GreenFreeper
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To: GreenFreeper
"The frogs are trying to tell us something," said Andrew Dobson, a Princeton University professor who studies infectious diseases in the wild. "We're making the world a sicker place and, mercifully, the frogs have picked up on it before humans." Like the exploding frogs in Germany? Give me a break! What a bunch of loons.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:04:37 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunnion.)
To: SF Republican
That is not too much money; why not let all the enviro and hollywood folks chip in the tax break money they think they should not be keeping - fund it your freaking selves. I'm actually surprised they are trying to secure funds for the projects from private institutions and individual donors. That has to be some sort of first!
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:04:43 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
Well things like chytridomycosis and viral disease should be of concern to even those that do not care about amphibians as it could have major impacts on humans (i.e commerical fisheries, livestock, agriculture, etc.).
The only people that care about chytridomycosis are the people that are doing this for a living.
The rest of us are busy with the other 42 billion things that need our attention.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:04:46 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
To: Beckwith
Soylent Green ~ the answer to environmentalists!And here I thought it was Simple Green......
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:05:55 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(People will never fail to disappoint you.......)
To: stylecouncilor
To: GreenFreeper
The operative word in your post is "could".
A meteor "could" strike the Earth next week and eradicate all life.
You or I "could" get hit by a Mack truck while we're crossing the street.
While traveling at 70 mph, my car "could" have a blowout in the left front tire, thereby sending me across the median, meeting you head-on and killing us both.
"If" is said to be the biggest word in the dictionary. For tree- and bunny-huggers, I think the biggest word is "could".
To: DaveLoneRanger
I'm actually surprised they didn't use this as a chance to further hype Global Warming. Amphibian declines is a major talking point for these guys.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:09:09 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: BLASTER 14
While traveling at 70 mph, my car "could" have a blowout in the left front tire, thereby sending me across the median, meeting you head-on and killing us both. Yes but do we not take resonable precautions to try and avoid those situations? Of all the things you listed, we are away of all those dangers and have taken some reasonable precautions. It's one thing to not go crazy postulating the coulds and it's another to completely ignorant of potential danger.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:15:02 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: GreenFreeper
"The frogs are trying to tell us something,"
Yep, they are saying that this boiling water in the pot is fine.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:16:45 AM PDT
by
CSM
( It's all Bush's fault! He should have known Mayor Gumbo was a retard! - Travis McGee (9/2))
To: All
Why are environmentalists like watermellons. Because they are both green on the outside and red in the middle.
To: GreenFreeper
They could pay for most of this if they trade the allocated funds for that bridge to nowhere in Alaska thats in the highway bill lol
It would be funny to be a fly on a wall telling the Alaska pol "Sorry, your bridge has been traded in to save some frogs"
lol
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:19:52 AM PDT
by
zoddent
To: GreenFreeper
if you don't get rid of the fungus, all you're doing is providing it with lunch." But, um, doesn't this mean you would WANT to make the fungus extinct? But why? Doesn't fungus have a right to exist?
One thing that never sat well with me and the enviromentalists... They couldn't rationalize the food chain.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:19:58 AM PDT
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
To: Experiment 6-2-6
Doesn't fungus have a right to exist? One thing that never sat well with me and the enviromentalists... They couldn't rationalize the food chain. Well the environmentalists want everything to be 'good', but not too good. The fungi can exist so longs as it doesn't infringe on the right of another species to exist. Kinda eliminates the whole survival of the fittest eh?
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:26:44 AM PDT
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: grobdriver
Extinction is nature in action. Wow, I am the farthest from being an envirowacko, but you are missing the point.
BTW - $400 mil to save a toad is ridculous.
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:29:39 AM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: GreenFreeper
What a coincidence. I need $404M too!!
Don't they remember from their mandatory evolution schooling that extinction happens. New species evolve. Disadvantaged species go extinct. Its the great circle of life!
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posted on
10/04/2005 9:31:29 AM PDT
by
FreeInWV
To: GreenFreeper
Environmentalists proposed a $404 million global action plan yesterday at a conference in Washington D. C. to protect and preserve amphibian species. Then you'd best get busy raising the money.
Maybe Soros will help. He's probably got at least $404M in his coat pocket :)
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posted on
10/04/2005 10:24:32 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(A fireman running up the stairs at the WTC as the towers began to collapse: HERO defined ~ Ben Stein)
To: upchuck
Soros is waiting for the frogs to denounce Bush before he gives them a nickel.
To: GreenFreeper
Leave the darned things alone; the more you try to cure the disease or separate the animals from its influence, the less chance there is for the animals to develop their own natural resistance.
It is impossible to eradicate a fungus globally, but fools don't understand this.
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posted on
10/04/2005 11:16:59 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: Blurblogger
one-third of all human babies face a high risk of extinction....show me the money to save THEMAbortion and homosexuality are actually GOOD things to the eco-fascists. It cuts down on the "burdening" population of Mother Earth...
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posted on
10/04/2005 11:19:07 AM PDT
by
Windsong
(FighterPilot)
To: GreenFreeper
If and when it is shown that a particular pathogen has switched hosts, yes; but as a precautionary project to eliminate a whole strain when the prospects for success can't even be assessed, it makes for foolish policy.
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posted on
10/04/2005 11:20:38 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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