The human race on planet Earth proves dumber and dumber by the day with human population growth rates exceeding the ability of this planet to sustain life.

Frosty Wooldridge

From: On the Termination of Species; Endangered Earth; Exclusive Online Issues; by W. Wayt Gibbs;

HILO, HAWAII – Among the scientists gathered here in August at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, the despair was almost palpable. “I’m just glad I’m retiring soon and won’t be around to see everything disappear,” said P. Dee Boersma, former president of the society, during the opening night’s dinner. Other veteran field biologists around the table murmured in sullen agreement.

At the next morning’s keynote address, Robert M. May, a University of Oxford zoologist who presides over the Royal Society and until last year served as chief scientific adviser to the British government, did his best to disabuse any remaining optimists of their rosy outlook. According to his latest rough estimate, the extinction rate – the pace at which species vanish – accelerated during the past 100 years to roughly 1,000 times what it was before humans showed up. Various lines of argument, he explained, “suggest a speeding up by a further factor of 10 over the next century or so…. And that puts us squarely on the breaking edge of the sixth great wave of extinction in the history of life on Earth.”

From: Threat of Extinction Plagues More Than 15,000 Species
By Sarah Graham
November 17, 2004

“The annual report card on the state of the planet’s species contains some sobering statistics. According to this year’s Red List of Threatened Species, compiled by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a total of 15,589 species are currently at risk for extinction, with more than 3,330 new threatened plants and animals added to the roll since last year. As it stands now, one in three amphibians, one in four mammals and one in eight birds stand to disappear permanently.

The major pressures on species on the Red List are habitat loss and degradation, which endanger more than 85 percent of all threatened birds, mammals and amphibians. Other major forces behind species loss include exploitation through overhunting or fishing, invasive alien species and climate change. ”

Regarding Population Policy; since the only thing that will prevent this catastrophe, if it’s not already too late, is a drastic change in human nature and since human nature never changes, the ultimate result will be that there will be a mass die off of humans in the near future (100-200 years…or less). The planetary system is self correcting. In the animal world, where there is overpopulation and crowding and depletion of resources, there is starvation, disease, and mass death.

Let us never forget that we are after all, only animals.