An interesting article in Scientific American reported on the human cause of whale death despite some protections. There are only 460 Atlantic right whales still alive.
Not that anything like extirpating species is meaningful to most Americans-really its not. The price of gasoline matters as well as tax cuts for the middle class so they can have the rich pay for it.
I read an interesting book on temperature in the Universe and found that some scientists think that there was a great planetary freeze that killed about all life on Earth may 560 million years ago. The entire world was covered by ice before some volcanoes poked through and issued enough global warming gasses to start a huge melt and let life once again get started.
There is a history of global warming and cooling on Earth that is rather radical, yet few would care enough to let humanity itself have a best chance to remain alive as a species. Rats may inherit Washington D.C., yet the new Earth for the saved may follow dirtocratic Armageddons of global warming, or not of course. One should read the fine print on those prophetic, scientific and religious concerns.
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