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The worlds 200 co2-iest power plants, would have been a better title.

This isn't exactly evolution. It's completely out of scale thanks to human technologies. The problem is, we're wiping out species before we understand how they might help us, like how doctors have found cures for diseases in rare tropical plants, or how scientists are inspired to solve a technology problem based on properties or behaviors in exotic animals or plants. Once we wipe them out ...

Were we pumping out greenhouse gasses like there is no tomorrow thousands of years ago? No? Then no, we shouldn't take responsibility for that too.

I came to this submission expecting a snarky blog entry about how we import the water we used to drink from France now. I was wrong. I think.

What I would do for some of these in high res....

Nothing good can come of this. Go watch Grizzly Man... I know, I know. These are black bears not grizzly bears, but a bear is a bear and it can eat your ass.

Let me clear it up for you: it's what's left after bovine digestion.

No.

Because we should get green energy by creating new problems, right? I'm sure it's as one-sided as you make it sound.

we'll get to the center of the earth sooner or later!

Were we pumping out greenhouse gasses like there is no tomorrow thousands of years ago? No? Then no, we shouldn't take responsibility for that too.

Much like Rome, which crashed because soil erosion robbed the empire of its fertile grain lands.

The worlds 200 co2-iest power plants, would have been a better title.

independent.co.uk — Ecuador is now banking on a new idea to help it shed its poisonous dependency on oil. The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to keep the region's remaining oil reserves untapped and underground, in return for financial compensation from the international community. The crux of it is simple: to keep the oil beneath the Yasuni National Park where it is.

Because we should get green energy by creating new problems, right? I'm sure it's as one-sided as you make it sound.

I bet Macgyver could find a way to put out the fire AND clean up the mess using common household items!

No.

Another environmental disaster...

Goats are pretty well known for being able to defeat measures to keep them in a certain area. I cannot imagine a rope being all that effective.

Depends on how criminally negligent it was