Comments on: Human Appetite for Sharks Pushes Many Toward Extinction http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:16:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roy Shastid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-35434 Roy Shastid Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:26:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/#comment-35434 Sometime in the 70's I read a few books by T.J.Bass (THE GODWHALE and HALF PAST HUMAN ) that treated with the growth of human populations and the implications of our unchecked appetite for all in the biosphere. The science and biology he used in his books was of a very high standard. The nightmare he depicted so long ago seems to be coming true. Has anyone else had the pleasure of these books? Sometime in the 70’s I read a few books by T.J.Bass (THE GODWHALE and HALF PAST HUMAN ) that treated with the growth of human populations and the implications of our unchecked appetite for all in the biosphere. The science and biology he used in his books was of a very high standard. The nightmare he depicted so long ago seems to be coming true. Has anyone else had the pleasure of these books?

]]> By: Woody Tanaka http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-35348 Woody Tanaka Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:32:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/#comment-35348 "But I guess that’s progress, survival of the most powerful, fittest, strongest and/or smartest!" Bull****, short-sighted nonsense. Providing a jusification for idiocy is, itself, idiocy. [Moderator: This post has been edited. Please don't curse, folks.] “But I guess that’s progress, survival of the most powerful, fittest, strongest and/or smartest!”

Bull****, short-sighted nonsense. Providing a jusification for idiocy is, itself, idiocy.

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]]> By: QUASAR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-35334 QUASAR Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:55:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/25/human-appetite-for-sharks-pushes-many-toward-extinction/#comment-35334 Greedy, mainly hairless apes! But I guess that's progress, survival of the most powerful, fittest, strongest and/or smartest! Greedy, mainly hairless apes!

But I guess that’s progress, survival of the most powerful, fittest, strongest and/or smartest!

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