I recently finished reading a book called The End of Evolution by Peter Ward, a Paleantologist from the University of Washington. It's interesting. The author sugests that we are in the midst of a mass extinction, caused my man, but not just modern man. He claims that this has been going on for thousands of years and it's very interesting.

One of the things that I just don't get is why we try so hard to preserve all the species. I mean whether or not man is around to cause problems, they will all go extinct eventually. Maybe they'll live a hundred thousand more years, who knows? But, like on Hawaii, in the 1950s, there was one species that was eating another species and the species being eaten was more rare so they put in predators to eat the first species, but they miscalculated and the predators ate the species they were trying to save.

I mean it's crazy. The reason that the species are going extinct is because their habitat is being destroyed by man. We should either let them go extinct, or we should evacuate man from the Hawaiian Islands. With man there, there is little hope for these endangered species. If we are lucky, they may last a couple hundred more years. But it is inevitable that they will be extinct very very soon if their habitat is destroyed, that is unless they adapt to changes within record time, in which case, humans need not concern themselves.

Each species is so precious, yet humans are not about to sacrifice anything to save them. If we really wanted to save them, we'd control the human population by killing people, like they do when one species gets too large in number. But humans are sacred to us. We want to do all we can to save species, that is unless it affects us negatively. We are hypocrites. We think its good to kill rats because they are eating beautiful "endangered" snails or something, yet we won't kill humans who are destroying the rain forest. It's just inconsistant.