MEMO COPY -- tipping points and ecosystem collapse
Kent Paul Dolan
in talk.origins, Sapient Fridge wrote:
> I was just about to post about this monster
> anyway, when I suddenly realised who was
> presenting it :-)
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm
> Wow, what a beast! Err...the fossil that is, not
> Mr Forrest.
On the sidebar to that or a closely related pliosaur
story, I found this lovely cautionary tale about
trespassing across (chaos-theory-style) tipping
points ruining ecosystems and destroying the peoples
who inhabit them, which might well be taken to heart
by anthropomorphic global warming deniers who keep
stalling effective remediation with all their oil
industry cash fueled power:
"Logging 'caused Nazca collapse'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8334000/8334257.stm
or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yacqsmy
If humans want not to be selected against, paying
more attention to possible future
(chaos-theory-style) tipping points that encompass
ecosystem collapse would be well advised.
xanthian.