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I'm sorry that this is the only thing that has prompted me to write in over three weeks, but here you have it. I was just reading the endangered species list for California and wanted to cry. It's only second to Hawaii's, and if you have any idea about what has happened to Hawaii and all of it's native plants and animals, then you probably

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[rwclark]

So as for extinction...scientists can go back very far into the past by looking at fossils, etc. I did some googling and it looks like the extinction rate now is about equal to the last mass extinction 65 million years ago (like the dinosaurs)...and that's mostly because human population/development is causing habitat loss. Depressing.

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But is it really because of human population/habitat loss? That is my question. As in, if there were no humans, would things be dying out anyway? Or maybe, we are just speeding up an already inevitable process.

[rwclark]

Well...I'm pretty sure there's enough evidence to suggest that's the case. Things are always dying out, but it's at a very steady rate, unless there's some earth-shattering catastrophe like a meteor or something. P.S. Have you seen An Inconvenient Truth?