Date published: 2006/09/26
The BBC says:
Humans could cease to be the "dominant species" on Earth because of the environmental damage they are causing, the Green Party conference has heard.
Party Leader Keith Taylor warned delegates in Hove that the challenges of tackling global warming urgently needed to be addressed.
Are we supposed to worry that humans "could cease to be the dominant species on Earth"? Not many humans wake up every morning worrying about how dominant we are, or not. Needless to say, there are far better arguments against environmental destruction than how dominant humans are. And anybody who knows anything about evolution knows that the odds are extremely high that some day humans will cease to be an extant species at all (even ignoring the inevitable entropic or crunch death of the universe as a whole). We certainly won't be very dominant then.
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