[GladesGuru]

"We need to keep as many alive as possible, because we depend upon their existence more than we realize."

No, we don't. It seems you have accepted the enviro-socialist premise that all life is connected (Gaia hypothesis), that the earth is alive.

Consider that we killed nearly all of the largest organisms ever to live on earth - the Blue Whale. Removing that top carnivore in the Antarctic Sea did nothing except make a lot of krill very happy.

The food chain stayed as it was (minus Blue Whales) and when they came back, little or nothing changed.

But there were unhappy krill. ;-(

The interdependence bit is simply not the major factor the enviro's want us stupid, taxpayers to believe

[pcottraux]

It seems you have accepted the enviro-socialist premise that all life is connected...that the earth is alive.

No, I don't.

I'm talking from an industrial viewpoint. It's very simple, really. The Great White Shark hunts and kills seals and sea lions. It keeps the seal and sea lion population down. If the GWS becomes extinct, the seal and sea lion population explodes (they are over-reproducers, like deer). Then, the fishing industry takes a huge hit because many certain fish populations shoot way down because the overpopulated seals are eating them. (And what we're talking about here has more of an impact than the blue whale/krill thing).

Wanting to protect a species from extinction does not make someone an enviro-wacko hippy.

Choose your side: do you honestly believe we should wipe out Great White Sharks? If so, do you have a reason?

[devolve]

But we only have:

- 1 night
- 1 year
- 10 years
- 20 years
- 30 years
- 40 years
- 50 years
- etc. years

for:

- Mary Jo
- Earth
- Neaderthal Ned
- Great White Humans
- Every Bird
- Sperm Whales
- John Wayne Gacy & Jimmy Carter
- Alligators
- Redwoods
- US Senator Heinz
- Sharks
- liberals
- Gum Chewing Junior Senators from NY
- Spotted Owl
- Cockroaches
- Any FOBs
- Blind Purple Striped Whatever
- Robert Byrd
- Dinosaurs

to live!

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-- Statement/Warning by: (Pick one or more or all)

- Ted Kennedy
- Neanderthal Ned 50,000BC
- Teresa Heinz & John Kerry
- Bill & Hillary Klintoon
- Ted Danson 1990
- algore 1992, 2000, 2006, etc.
- PETA/ELF/ALF/Greenpizza whenever!
- all liberals
- etc.